A General Love Of Books: An Interview With Benjamin Markovits
The truth is, I’m the child of academics and grew up, like many people, knowing nothing better than the world of school. It’s helpful to know a world well if you want to write about it, so I write about teachers, professors and students. I’d distinguish between the The Syme Papers, which is properly a campus novel, and the other books, though. Even high school seems to me to belong to a different kind of thing than university: everybody goes to high school, after all. And the Byron novels don’t strike me as very academic. They have more to do with a general love of books, and the kind of people who view their lives through books.
T Bunstead interviews Benjamin Markovits.
The Missing Links
The Serpentine’s Manifesto Marathon 2008. * Bad Idea magazine have launched a new blog and will now be holding a monthly event in London (starting on 30th October) called the Butcher’s Shop. * Joe Stretch in City Life: “Human beings are shit. Aren’t they though? They’re shit. Facebook is not the lie, that’s the lie […]