I tried my hand, without notable success, at writing poetry. I had to some extent lost interest in writing a ‘conventional’ novel. I was certainly going through what you might call a transitional phase. SZALAY: I wouldn’t say I was going through a crisis at the time when I was writing the book. Were you going through a transitional phase when you were writing this book? Your own ‘crisis’? Men seem to have been in crisis’ at some time or another all throughout history, yet in your hands, the topic is revitalized. Congratulations on being nominated for the Man Booker this year what an achievement. What a genius observer of human nature you are. I was probably experiencing such a transition myself when I wrote it.”ĪUTHORLINK: Mr Szalay, your book is amazing, your portrait of man in crisis a triumph, your writing judgment-free. He was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize this year. It is a bummer, and it is beautiful.” ― The New York Times This book is a demonstration of uncommon power. “Mr Szalay’s own stream of perception never falters in its sensitivity and probity. An exclusive AUTHORLINK interview with David SzalayĪuthor of All That Man Is: A Novel ( (Graywolf Press, 4 October 2016))ĭavid Szalay, (pronounced SOL-loy), Granta’s Best Young British Novelist in 2013, is neither sentimental about male desire nor male failure in his latest book about the crisis of the European man, All That Man Is: A Novel (Graywolf Press, 4 October 2016).

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