Simon Schama Interview on New Book Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
The polymathic professor, TV presenter, and writer has a new collection of essays that covers, well, just about everything. He talks to Liesl Schillinger about his family, his next project—and the novel that he wants to write.
Anyone who believes that human beings only use 5 percent of their brains at any given time has never sat down for a chin-wag with Simon Schama, the ebullient, tireless author, art historian, and public intellectual, whose 15th book—a collection of the journalism and essays he’s written in stray minutes,...