A Conversation with Orhan Pamuk

The other night, Orhan Pamuk was in Houston,
reading at Zilkha Hall, and I was asked by Inprint, the premiere arts
organization of the city, to interview him onstage. A fascinating man, Pamuk had many
unusual and thought-provoking things to say about writing. Below, I've
paraphrased three of his answers.

 

I started by remarking on the fact that his novels--Snow, My
Name is Red, Black Book, Museum of Innocence--are each very different. I asked
if this is intentional, if he...