I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.'
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword.
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was 'cool' for all the Gen Xers to read.
I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian.
My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.
Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it.
