Justin Cartwright

“DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said something similar. DeLillo, of course, has written very long in t...”

“If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the library, I can get an awful lot done in a couple of hours, but it can become qui...”

“Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that reaches back into our past'. For him, this is the 92 miles of the A303 - as he subtitles his bo...”

“America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the great American male writers. You could make a case for saying that it was the onl...”

“Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental.”

“So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.”