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Day: February 12, 2011

Martin Amis, Brain Damage, and Children’s Literature

Posted on February 12, 2011February 13, 2011 by Philip Nel

On the BBC’s Faulks on Fiction this week, Martin Amis said, “People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book. I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to…

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