For many years the "Paris Review" interviews have been justly famous for giving deeper insight and understanding of the creative process. In this selection from the interviews, 15 writers discuss what they think of their own, and other people's work, their lives and the problems of writing in the contemporary world.

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Dick, Kay

Literature & Fiction

Penguin

The shelf: A novel

Hamish Hamilton

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer.\n'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood 
'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' Emily St. John Mandel\nThis is Britain: but not as we know it. 
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist. 
THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity. 
Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...\nLost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick's They (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity - and a warning.\n'Delicious and sexy and downright chilling ... Read it!' Rumaan Alam 
'Crystalline ... The signature of an enchantress.' Edna O'Brien 
'I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.' Lauren Groff 
'Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Completely got under my skin.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 
'Lush, hypnotic, compulsive ... A reminder of where groupthink leads.' Eimear McBride 
'A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching.' Claire-Louise Bennett 
'A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable.' Andrew Hunter Murray 
'Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future.' Salena Godden

They: The Lost Dystopian 'Masterpiece' (Emily St. John Mandel)

Contemporary

Faber&Faber

Ivy & Stevie: Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith: Conversations and reflections

London : Duckworth

Ivy and Stevie

Allison Busby

The Shelf

LGBTQ+ Books

Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd

A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als)\nSet amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing “They” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out.\nWinner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick’s They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.

They (McNally Editions)

Literary

McNally Editions

Genre Fiction

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