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- Ernest MetzgerInterview
Some years ago a close colleague died and I was quite sad about it. I somehow got it into my head that I could treat my unhappiness by reading In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. It was then in a recently published series, with different translators for each volume. As therapy, it worked beautifully, though I…
- Angie HobbsInterview
Definitely. My father was a great reader, and whatever else he was reading he would always have a volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust on the go (though I think his older edition was translated as Remembrance of Things Past). When he had finished all seven volumes, he would simply start all over again. I…
- Benjamin MurphyInterview
I’m currently reading The Audacity Of Hope by Barack Obama. American politics is a scary place right now so I decided that I needed a bit of positivity; Obama seemed a good conduit for that. It’s a really positive book written whilst he was still a senator. The overwhelming response the book received was what made him…
- Henry RollinsInterview
Non fiction. Although, before I die, I am hell bent on getting all the way through In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. That’s literature I will make time for. I have been dragging the Lydia Davis translation of Swann’s Way around with me for a long time, reading it now and then. Incredible.
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