No Holds Barred: Richard Marcus gets one of my most honest interviews
Aug 19th, 2005 by Ashok
Yesterday, a fan, a friend really now, conducted a longish interview
with me.
The first part is already up today. The second part will be up
tomorrow. (It’s a longish interview.)
Now, I’ve done a lot of interviews.
In fact, for the nonce, I’m actually not supposed to be doing any more.
But in this case, his questions were so ‘important’ I couldn’t resist.
Richard Marcus, a Canadian, whose blog I’ve just posted a link to in
the Index panel to the right over here, is an intelligent, caring,
liberal humanist - for want of a better term.
I’ve been reading his posts at blogcritics.org and they’re insightful,
genial and often quite accurately hit the intended mark.
And I think he managed to get me to answer some of the most personal
questions I’ve been asked, and give some of the personal answers I’ve
ever given in an interview before.
You can read it and see for yourself.
Unlike most journalists, who invariably edit (or say ‘my editor cut it
out’) parts of my interviews, especially the parts where I get too
scathing or too close for comfort, Richard let my answers stay as they
were unedited and spontaneous.
So the interview you’ll read on the link below is my strongest one
ever, and my most honest.
But if it gives you some insight into me as a person, and as a writer,
I think it’s done its job.
This is what I am, take it or leave it.
The books are what they are, take them or leave them too.
And the interview is a damn fine piece of work.
Thank Richard Marcus for that.
You can go to the interview by clicking on the title of this blogpost
(above), or by copying and pasting the URL below.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/18/191718.php
