Chawton village
There is a little interview with me up at literary website Jane Austen in Vermont, whose editors have amassed a veritable treasure trove of all things to do with Jane Austen, past and present. Site editor Janeite Deb invited me to talk about the forthcoming collection ‘Dancing With Mr Darcy’, edited by Sarah Waters.
Do you read author interviews? And if so why? Is it partly to get to “know” the author? If so, then Writer’s Rooms does a good job with its photographs of writers studies (like that of Russell Hoban, above). Or do you hope for some insight you’d never get by reading their work? I was thinking about this when I did an author interview this week. I asked Bernardine Evaristo about her life and her novel Blonde Roots. Then I thought, isn’t all this “about the author” stuff just extra? If it was you, what would you hope to be asked? Or would you just want people to focus on the book?
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