Paul Theroux (Malawi): “Writing is a blood sport.”
Thanks for the ‘heads up’ from Dale Gilles (Liberia 1964-67) Paul Theroux: ‘Writing is a blood sport. One does have differences with people’ by Rachel Cooke The Guardian 3 October 2022 The prolific novelist and travel writer is 81 but shows no signs of slowing down. He talks about adventure, criticism . . . and that memoir by his ex-wife. In an ideal world — by which I mean one that lives up to my most energetic fantasies – Paul Theroux and I would be meeting in some far flung and exotic place: on an empty platform in a distant railway station, or under a date palm in a dried-up desert oasis. Both of us would have dust on our boots. One of us would be wearing a bad hat, or even a good one. Our conversation, which would unfold like an old map, would come with a . . .
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Thank you for this timely article. It is a perfect connection to Marian Haley Beil’s mention of Theroux on her…