Tim Parks: "Every few days, working on my new novel, my thoughts flash back to something Colm TóibÃn said at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival nine months ago: that flashbacks are infuriating. Speaking at an event to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, TóibÃn said Austen was marvelous because she was able to […]
SOURCE: The New York Review of Books at 11:03AM on April 4, 2018