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Hari Kunzru
British Novelist
Born: 1969
About Been Books Me People Think
Related authors: Anne Bronte Charles Morgan Charlotte Bronte Hector Hugh Munro Helen Oyeyemi Jeanette Winterson Roald Dahl Zadie Smith
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives. Hari Kunzru
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.' Hari Kunzru
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold. Hari Kunzru
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. Hari Kunzru
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments. Hari Kunzru
People Important Think Developments New Understand Literate Technological
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit. Hari Kunzru
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales. Hari Kunzru
Fear Extreme Scared Adult Most Climbing Been Vertigo Wales Trying Going Situations Conquer Suffer
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening. Hari Kunzru
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place. Hari Kunzru
Nothing More New Likes Than York New York Happens Place Nothing New Thing
Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works. Hari Kunzru
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy. Hari Kunzru
Character Me Try Somebody Fall Think Telling Writers Understand Get Them Create
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas. Hari Kunzru
People Flower Books Indian Some Terrible Cliches Still Go Lotus Bananas Hands Fiction Europe Slap Images Presentation
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love. Hari Kunzru
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