![]() ![]() Phone interviews are generally frustrating, a mess of missed connections and awkward interruptions. So now I’m thinking, ‘Oh dear, be careful what you wish for!’” she says. Yet if it had actually burned down I would have felt so guilty. ![]() ![]() “But I remember I used to pray the school would burn down before a math test the next day. So she was “kind of relieved” when the tour was cancelled. She never liked – and still doesn’t, but needs must in today’s world – talking about how she does what she does, because that leads to self-consciousness, which is never good for creativity. But until 2012, she maintained a silence as assiduous as that of Thomas Pynchon or JD Salinger. She is one of the world’s most acclaimed modern novelists, winner of both a Pulitzer (for Breathing Lessons, 1988) and the National Book Critics Circle award (for The Accidental Tourist, 1995, which was turned into an Oscar-winning film) and a finalist for the Man Booker ( A Spool of Blue Thread, 2015) and the Women’s prize for fiction ( Ladder of Years from 1995, and A Spool of Blue Thread). W hen Anne Tyler’s UK tour for her latest novel became an early victim of the coronavirus, and her publisher announced that the 78-year-old would be conducting all media interviews by phone from the safety of her home in Baltimore, Tyler felt some relief, but mainly she felt guilt. ![]()
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