Burgess interviewed in the USA

1971. Burgess on

• the impossibility of writing in London
• attempting to discover something about what Shakespeare was really like
• the pretence of certain clergymen about Shakespeare
• his alleged nervous collapse in Borneo
• being accused of letting the side down by failing to write costively
• being hounded out of Brunei for political reasons
• the right not to be aborted
• the pub
• the impossibility of writing in Dublin
• pubescent creative efforts
• the hard-heartedness of the writing profession
• his motherfucking novel

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