Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Joseph O’Neill

Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland made the 2008 Man Booker longlist and was named as one of the New York Times’ 10 best books of 2008.

From his Q & A with Anna Metcalfe of the Financial Times:

What is the last thing you read that made you laugh out loud?

U and I by Nicholson Baker; I’ve just read it for the umpteenth time.

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What would you go back and change?

The Florida recount.

What was the first novel you read?

Graphic novels by Hergé.
Read the complete Q & A.

--Marshal Zeringue