James Lasdun
James Lasdun
James Lasdunis a British writer who has lived in the United States since 1986. His father was the architect Denys Lasdun...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
fades fought history people period
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.
lectures nature
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
main market steps stories tend towards work writers
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.