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On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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What's Your Philosophy About Writing?

i'm so happy to be talking to you. I think this has been a problem since the beginning of my writing career, because i do things that don't fit into neat gomra boxes. So there's elements of memoir, but they're definitely not memoirs. There's elements of travel writing sometimes, and bi graphy. But i think the main body of my books really is cultural history. Ad what iam trying to do is interrogate subjects, often difficult subjects, so alcoholism, loneliness, and with the new book, the relationship between bodies and freedom.

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