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Theatre of pain
Doctors’ blood-and-guts memoirs expose the pride, violence and rare, sweet beauty of medicine
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Small Talk: Damon Galgut
What makes me cross to read? Pseudo-spiritual works that sell in vast quantities. It’s fake and it makes me angry that people take such insight from it
Small Talk: Siri Hustvedt
What is the hardest thing to write about? It’s hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy, and to do it with sympathy
Small Talk: Philip Reeve
Which literary character most resembles me? I think all Englishmen resemble one of the four animals from the ‘The Wind in the Willows’. I’m definitely Mole
Small Talk: Jhumpa Lahiri
What am I scared of? Bats. And life in general. I write out of a fear that I will be defeated somehow by the experience of being alive
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