Lionel Shriver: The dangers of film adaptations
Awful film adaptations follow authors for the rest of their lives but Lynne Ramsay's version of my book We Need To Talk About Kevin is terrificIn grad school, I took a workshop with Scott Spencer, whose excellent novel Endless Love had just been turned...
Lionel Shriver talks about Kevin
How does it feel to have your widely rejected manuscript become a best-selling, prize-winning novel, then a book-club favourite and now the toast of the Cannes film festival? The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin explainsIt has now entered the...
I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it | Lionel Shriver
Publishing's notion of what women want is dated and patronising. In my case it's like trying to stuff a rottweiler in a dressThe latest literary dust-up in the United States concerns the outsize critical admiration of Jonathan Franzen's new novel Freed...
Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend
When Terri was diagnosed with cancer, Lionel Shriver was doting – at first. But as her condition worsened, there always seemed to be a reason not to call…
I met Terri in the early 1980s at an arts camp in Connecticut. We were both in the metalsmithing...
The truth about my ‘junket’ in paradise
Lionel Shriver on the trip she was commissioned to write about by a newspaper – which then villified her as a 'junket author'
In 2007, the Sunday Times suggested that if I ever needed to go somewhere to research a novel, I might combine the trip with an assignment...
The battle of the book reviews | Lionel Shriver