Everybody loves Beckett
Neil Jordan interviewed by IMMA’s Christina Kennedy [PDF], on the occasion of the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival.
Dissident lit
I don’t really think of that as a hot-air literary morality…It’s just to me about the things that can happen, the kinds of feelings and experiences that can be enacted for the reader, inside of this structure. That’s what I’m turned on by.
Future fictions
Bartleby is safely settled in the Natural Language Processing Lab and prefers not to do the writing demanded of him.
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The woman in the Lempicka blue scarf is not, again, Tamara de Lempicka, though for publicity purposes, and for the generation of an icon, she may as well be.