Harry Mathews

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.