The charming novelist Michael Arditti kindly offered to answer a few questions for Shelf Life, the new feature where we ask literary people impertinent questions about their reading habits. He also posed for a photo in a rather debonair fashion on his sedan chair with his bookshelf in the background. He mentioned that he does — and always has done — most of his work in bed. That explains answer number six then.
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
Too many to list, but Joseph Roth’s Job
springs to mind.
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books.
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