Rushdie loves them. You probably will too...

Three of the writers collected in this volume are friends of mine: Grossman, Orhan Pamuk and Paul Auster. But writers talk less to each other about their craft than perhaps they should, so even in these cases what the interviews have to tell me is revealing. Auster talks about “reading with [his] fingers”, the act of retyping the whole book once it’s finished, and how valuable he finds it — “it’s amazing”. He marvels at “how many errors your fingers will find that your eyes never noticed”.