Conversations With History - Annabel Patterson

[priertoujours]

I admire her advice for graduate students - to choose a topic you have not covered extensively in the past - as in english literature maintaining one's intrinsic passion is paramount to creating original and hopefully insightful work.

[lizbrandow]

Brilliant! I'm awed by her encyclopaedic knowledge and permanent curiosity - I've just read her book on the Holinshed Chronicles and there she absolutely demonstrates what she says in the Conversation - Keep asking questions! Seriously impressive.

[vergeharget]

I liked this interview-wide ranging, and lively and engaging. I didn't agree with the asserted equivalences between Middle Eastern and American censorship, theocracy and the forced wearing of veils and American state intrusion into polygamous relationships out of concern for the children. Great stuff though on the power of abstract words and their *biographies*.

Itzik Basman