Lynn Barber, What the papers say Feature Writer of the Year for her interviews in the Independent on Sunday, is the author of How to improve your man in bed, The Single Woman’s Sex Book and The Heyday of Natural History.
I shall bite the next person who comes up to me at a party and asks if I’ve read The Journalist and the Murderer. It is not a well-intentioned question. It implies that Ms Malcolm’s book has dealt irreparable damage to me and my kind (journalists who do interviews for a living), and that henceforward we must hang our heads in shame. I don’t see it myself, but let’s begin with the book.
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