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Lawrence Norfolk: John Saturnall's Feast
British writer, Lawrence Norfolk on his new novel of historical fiction and how his desire to write about love and need relates to his epicurean tale of appetite and hunger.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 28m ListenThe ostensible subject of
John Saturnall's Feast (Grove Press) -- 17th century British cuisine -- rapidly gives way to related discussions of appetite, hunger, nurture, motherhood, loss and death. We explore
Lawrence Norfolk's desire to write an emotionally direct, basic book about feeling, love and need.
