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"I used to read a lot in terms of just the backs of toothpaste. I spent a lot of time reading ingredients and things like that, so there was probably also a fascination with words." Sunjeev Sahota talks about reading as a child and working on his second novel, The Year of the Runaways (Picador, 2015), which is longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
“Do what you want to do, and don’t worry if it's a little odd or doesn’t fit the market.” Lydia Davis, whose latest collection of stories, Can't and Won't, was released in paperback by Picador in March, offers practical and reassuring advice for writers.
Clive James speaks with BBC News about living with a terminal illness and reads from his new poetry collection, Sentenced to Life (Picador, 2015). An essay collection by James, Latest Readings, will be published by Yale University Press in June.
Novelist, memoirist, and essayist Siri Hustvedt, whose most recent book is the essay collection Living, Thinking, Looking (Picador, 2012), talks here about "between space...the zone of action between people through which a third entity is created. Something like a third presence in the room."
"Having been much criticized for lots of things I've talked about actually is a very liberating thing," says Joyce Maynard in this clip from Open Road Media. Maynard is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, in which she revealed her relationship with J. D. Salinger when he was fifty-three and she was eighteen.
This week Picador is publishing a tenth-anniversary edition of Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. This clip, from the 2007 documentary The American Ruling Class, features Ehrenreich and former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham.
In the latest installment of Picador's Big Ideas/Small Books series of paperbacks, poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum takes readers on a tour of humiliating circumstances in history, literature, art, current events, music, film, and his own life.
As part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival, novelist Siri Hustvedt, who is profiled in the current issue of the magazine, read an excerpt from The Summer Without Men, published this month by Picador.
