I suppose everything about one's self is recontextualised in an alien environment.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

I think the twentieth century should have taught us how 'civilisation' is the thinnest of veneers. I was reading something last year where a state torturer sai…

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an…

Louisiana rain is soaking through my shoes. I may never be the same when I reach Baton Rouge.

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his …