From his Q & A with Anna Metcalfe at the Financial Times:
What book changed your life?Read the complete Q & A.
A collection of Oscar Wilde’s short stories called A House of Pomegranates, which I read when I was eight or nine years old. The sumptuousness of the language blew me away.
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Which literary character most resembles you?
Huckleberry Finn. He was always true to himself. He knew he was helping a fugitive in Jim the runaway slave, and could burn in hell for it, but he wanted to stick by him. I would stick by Jim.
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What novel would you give a child to introduce them to literature?
Not a novel but a collection of Grimm’s fairy tales. The Goose Girl is one of my favourites.
--Marshal Zeringue