Different Childhoods
From Neev Literature Festival in India, where I was likely headed in person before the pandemic struck, here's an interesting conversation between Sayoni Basu and Emily Drabble.
I am a decade or so older than Sayoni, I think, so my reading was even more restricted than hers. And I had my own personal moment of awakening, after which I tossed the last Blyton book over my shoulder and went on directly to adult books. I think I'm still writing to fill those gaps in my own childhood.