In which i meet a great writer
I HATE NAME droppers, as I once told Bill Gates.
Yet I must boast that last week I had dinner with “the greatest living writer in the English language”. Not a joke.
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst has been described in exactly those terms by critics.
No one has ever called me anything like that.
And my chances of stealing that title from him are probably pretty …
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