This month’s Literary Review carries a detailed interview with Philip Pullman with Claudia Fitzherbert in which he discusses not only his work, but also his views on the wider world in general – on some issues in greater depth than we have really seen for a long time. The Guardian books blog also carries a blog and discussion about the “more adult” Pullman that seems to have come forward within this interview, which you can read here.
Claudia FitzHerbert talks to Philip Pullman
August 4, 2007
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Wonderful interview! I appreciated it very much. I just love the way he speaks (er, writes). He’s so passionate about everything.
Nice find, Ian. Pullman does give very good interviews. I’ll have to pass this on to Ceres!
“It already happens on the Internet. It’s called fan fiction: there are six hundred or so already doing it, maybe more now. Bloody nerve, isn’t it?”
I suspect it was tongue-in-cheek. :p
“The problem for those who think there’s an anti-religious anti-moral bias in the books comes when they haven’t actually read the books: of course there’s a criticism of organised theocratic tyrannical religion but who can disagree with that?”
I’ve been waiting for him to just come out and say this for a while. Thank you!