John Lanchester is the author of five novels, including The Wall, the best-selling Debt to Pleasure and Capital, as well as several works of nonfiction, including I.O.U. and How to Speak Money. His books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages, have won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in London.From Lanchester's TLS interview:
Which author (living or dead) do you think is most overrated?--Marshal Zeringue
Henry James.
What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
“Watch the little things” – time management advice from my tutor John Kelly.
To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act?
Always and everywhere to...[read on]