David Nicholls: ‘Is there great male writing about heterosexual desire at the moment? I’m not sure’
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David Nicholls: ‘Is there great male writing about heterosexual desire at the moment? I’m not sure’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’ve been trying to draw up a list in my mind of really great literary love stories that I might reread for inspiration,” he tells me. “It’s this kind of rite of passage that people have been through – they love talking about a miserable day on the Pennines or their favourite bit of the moors,” he tells me. Audiences at his recent book events have often included “people brought along by their parents, because it’s the guy who wrote One Day”. On his second, The Understudy: “It’s the one I like the least.” You Are Here certainly feels like Nicholls writing at his most wise and lyrical.

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