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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20051211
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What are you currently reading in bed?

The World of Yesterday " autobiography by Stefan Zweig. Do you know him? He's brilliant. His key novel is Beware of Pity, which I really recommend. It's like a better version of Wilkie Collins. It's real proof that posterity isn't a good judge of literature " everyone has this idea that it all comes out in the wash but it doesn't.

Is your mind an art gallery or a porn cinema? If neither, which kind of civic building is it?

It might be more like an amusement arcade, with only two machines " Penny Falls and Space Invaders. A money-making machine and a ...

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