Aatif Rashid, author of the novel Portrait of Sebastian Khan, joins the podcast to profess his love for Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. The one with, like, a million volumes? The one that’s jam-packed with the subtleties of human interactions, relationships, and communications (or lack thereof)? The one that you saw on all of those “great books” lists, but has since slipped away from the shelves of contemporary readers?

Yes, that one indeed. Listen in as Aatif and David chat about why this movement of all movements is still a must-read.

You can find out more about Aatif Rashid here and you can find Portrait of Sebastian Khan via 7.13 Books.

Also, for anyone curious about the article Aatif refernces in the episode, here it is: "A Text of Arrested Desire: The Anticlimax of Extended Narrative in Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time" (1988) by Lynette Felber https://www.jstor.org/stable/42945736

77 - Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time (Guest: Aatif Rashid)