Receiving praise is nice, in the same way that being slagged off is not nice. I was ultra-sensitive to both when I started out, but I’ve gradually come to adopt Keating’s attitude to the ‘twin impostors’ and I tend to regard both fairly coolly and distantly now. However, I have to say that the reception for The Amnesiac in the States – particularly among the lit-blog community – was something I enjoyed and took heart from. That book had not done especially well in Britain, certainly less well than my first novel, and I was beginning to despair of anyone really ‘getting it’, so it was heartening to read people describing it in more or less the terms I’d thought of it when I was writing it.
Continue reading Sam Taylor Interview Part 1.
Recent Comments