The novelist and screenwriter on Beckett, Nabokov and failing to finish a single one of the novels of Jane AustenThe book I am currently readingThe Invented Part, by Rodrigo Fresán. The book that changed my life/the worldThe Catechism of the Catholic Church. It had all the answers; it told you what simony is, and why you will go to hell for indulging in concupiscence. If only it were all true …The book I wish I’d writtenSamuel Beckett’s exquisite and deeply moving late text, Ill Seen Ill Said. 'Why is the Miss Universe contest always won by a woman from Planet Earth?'

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2017 09:56 UTC