India, Nov. 29 -- Congratulations on the success of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The title feels both prophetic and resigned. How did you arrive at it? I never really used to... Read More
India, Nov. 29 -- 1Congratulations on the success of One Day... The title feels both prophetic and resigned. How did you arrive at it? I never really used to post online - I feel short form is not my ... Read More
India, Nov. 15 -- The novel seems to suggest that the body is both the one thing we truly own, and the one thing that betrays us most. Was that the paradox you wanted to examine - the body as both hom... Read More
India, Nov. 15 -- You've mentioned that Flesh was not the intended title of the book initially; it was just a placeholder of sorts. What made you stick with it as the final title? As you say, it was ... Read More
India, Nov. 6 -- Max Porter's Shy was never an easy book to adapt. Its pages thrummed with noise - an unfamiliar rhythm of self-interruption - the inside of a young man's fractured mind, which is tune... Read More
India, Nov. 6 -- Max Porter's Shy was never an easy book to adapt. Its pages thrummed with noise - an unfamiliar rhythm of self-interruption - the inside of a young man's fractured mind, which is tune... Read More
India, Oct. 18 -- 1How did your new novel, The Midnight Timetable, come about? There are bits and pieces from all over the place. The title of it came from a small bus station near where I live. I liv... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- How did The Midnight Timetable come about? There are bits and pieces from all over the place. The title of it came from a small bus station near where I live. I live in a port town ... Read More
India, Oct. 9 -- Katie Kitamura's Audition, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, is a novel that is at once intimate and disorienting. Set against the New York theatre scene, it follows an unnamed a... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- What inspired Seascraper, and how did the story develop from that first burst of idea into a novel? It began with an impulse to write about where I grew up. I grew up on the northw... Read More