On Phillip Roth’s death, Howard Jacobson spoke about having met his idol. He described the experience as less than good with Roth affecting not to have read his work and providing him with a well cultured cold shoulder. Jacobson learnt upon that meeting that loving the business of the man was a very different proposition
David VS
What is this David VS thing? David VS is an ongoing conversation over continents with myself and my venerable compatriot and partner in reading a lot of books, Mrs Claire. It involves us sending one another books across the globe randomly about Daves or Davids. The mysterious parcels feature Dave as the major character, David