Alan Hollinghurst Interview: The Secret Life of a Poem from black man playing pool Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 18 min 35 sec
✓ Published: 01-Dec-2016

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An inspiring conversation with the award-winning English novelist Alan Hollinghurst – noted for his novel ‘The Line of Beauty – about being a sort of puppet master to his characters, and being characterized as “a gay writer.” nn“I read poetry obsessively all through my adolescence.” Hollinghurst went to boarding school in an old gothic house in the countryside, where the lady of the house was a friend of the Victorian poet Tennyson. Tennyson thus came to influence Hollinghurst’s