![]() ![]() ![]() In an interview with The New York Times last year, you called yourself a meglomaniac bent on controlling your universe of characters. I spoke with Mitchell by phone about his new novel, writing ghost stories, and the virtues of Twitter. Slade House (Random House), due October 27, picks up where his 6,000-word Twitter story, "The Right Sort," left off, at the entrance to a house down the road from a working-class British pub, where an odd brother and sister extend invitations to outcasts. He's a household name, synonymous with bestsellers, but nothing about his work is bland or predictable. Mitchell is the author who created his own "Middle Earth" in works like the bestselling 2004 novel Cloud Atlas, later adapted by the Wachowskis into a film starring Tom Hanks, and last year's seminal genre-bender, The Bone Clocks, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. ![]() He's in Ireland, he says, it's sunny and bright, and more than once you have to remind yourself, This is David Mitchell. Soft-spoken with a stiff and proper middle-class accent, the Englishman kindly asks what books you've read lately, your age, and what the weather outside is like. Speaking with David Mitchell is a lot like having tea with a telephone operator, albeit the wisest, most enthralling telephone operator you've ever met. ![]()
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