Indian shortlisted Booker prize author speaks to Amy Hall about inspiration (overrated) and constructing an off-world station for gun-lovers.
You are a poet, a musician and a novelist. Which genre is most immediate to you, and why?
On a daily basis, I usually work on one or two genres. I like the inclusiveness of fiction. Poetry, song lyrics, jokes, eccentric extemporaneous digressions, musical notation, photographs – anything can go into a novel. It is a capacious adaptive form, like the English language, and reports of its demise are always being exaggerated.
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