Tim Parks about a novel kind of conformity

A Novel Kind of Conformity

Tim Parks

Art Resource

Is it really possible to be free as a writer? Free from an immediate need for money, free from the need to be praised, free from the concern of how those close to you will respond to what you write, free from the political implications, free from your publisher’s eagerness for a book that looks like the last, or worse still, like whatever the latest fashion might be?

NYRB, NYRDaily,. 1.12.2015