Monday 3 September 2018

Rachel Cusk: Kudos


Writer writes about writers at writers festival.

She had to admit this journalist was one of her trickier customers, and his interviews nearly always ended with the same argument, since he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question and when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it.


You can't tell your story to everybody, I said. Maybe you can only tell it to one person.


A saddening thought, she said, that when a group of women get together, far from advancing the cause of femininity, they end up pathologising it.

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