Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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An extract from a 1989 interview of the novelist and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) by Michael Schmidt, marking the publication of Burgess's 30th novel Any Old Iron.

Released to coincide with a new selection of Anthony Burgess's literary journalism: The Ink Trade, edited by Will Carr and published by Carcanet Press in 2018.

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