In 2005 I had a poetry blog. It's strange for me to think that I wrote poetry, but I did, and I used to post the (mostly unpublished) poems on my blog. That's another thing that's strange to me now. I recently rediscovered the blog thanks to files I'd saved years…
A friend of mine told me that Macondo Books in Guelph was going out of business, and were having a sale this weekend. I went, not just for the sale, but to say goodbye. Maybe that sounds corny, but it's true. I always found at least one great book every time I…
INTERVIEWER What was going on with your writing then? ISHIGURO At the time, people weren’t talking about books. They were talking about TV plays, fringe theater, cinema, rock music. Then I read Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble. By this time I’d begun reading the big nineteenth-century novels, so it…
