How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov and Dublin
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The Irish novelist, whose new book is Ancient Light, talks to Noah Charney about the increasingly irritating Nabokov, why he doesn’t like Dostoevsky, and what calms him if his plane goes down.
Which novel would you recommend as one’s first Banville reading experience? That’s a difficult question. The Newton Letter recommends itself by being short, The Book of Evidence heralds, I think, what might be called my later style, The
