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.
In which i meet a great writer
In which i meet a great writer
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.
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