Who recommends it
- Helen RussellInterview
The most important thing is reading. Lots. Good and bad – so that you have something to aim for and so that you start to recognise where things can go wrong. The Writers and Artists Handbook is great for information on agents and publishers, but my other two recommendations would be essays. Politics and the English…
- MM McCabeInterview
Also ran: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. Wonderful, familiar account of that sense of being not quite entitled to anything, lurking round the outside of what my daughter calls the patriarchy (and for feminist books, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood goes a long way to nail what other more worthy texts…
- Barbara TverskyInterview
More recently I’ve shifted to non-fiction. Since Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader and The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, more and more eminent scholars have discovered they are also excellent communicators to the public. I read linguistics and cultural history and…
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