{"id":6800,"date":"2012-10-07T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2012-10-07T05:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T05:00:55","slug":"toronto-review-of-books-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/10\/07\/toronto-review-of-books-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Review of Books interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelli Deeth<\/a> interviewed me for the Toronto Review of Books <\/a>and I can say it’s one of my favourite interviews. Her questions on Malarky were carefully thought out and it’s clear arose from a very close reading of the novel. I was also grateful for her examination of who is absent from the novel … i.e. the daughters it’s the first time perhaps I’ve been asked about this. It reminds me again and again of how powerful a careful reading and excavation on any book can be and why, in my opinion, there’s often more power in being a reader than a writer.\u00a0 I wish there was as much competition and desire to be a reader as there is to be a writer these days. Imagine if all job interviews commenced with the inquiry: so tell me what you are reading or what you have read?<\/p>\n

I digress. Here’s a clip from Kelli Deeth’s interview and a link to the whole text. <\/p>\n

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9. I read that you spent ten years writing this book. What kept you going?<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Reading kept me going. It is what matters most. A single moment in publishing does not galvanize me as much as considering the interrelationship between many moments and how they speak to each other.<\/p>\n

Finally I have an insatiable appetite for completely redundant information, so that keeps me very occupied and sustained \u2013 kinda like constant mental porridge.<\/p>\n

Read Kelli Deeth\u2019s Interview with Anakana Schofield here<\/a><\/p>\n

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