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St Hugh’s Fellow in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri

St Hugh’s Fellow, Peter D McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literatures at the University of Oxford and author of various books including Artefacts of Writing (OUP) and, most recently, The Double Life of Books (Edinburgh), has been in conversation with the novelist, critic, and musician Amit Chaudhuri about Against Storytelling, a collection of essays by various writers edited by Chaudhuri. Against Storytelling is part of a new series of books (whose general editor is Chaudhuri) titled Literary Activism. The series is published by Westland Books in partnership with the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University.

Excerpts from the conversation can be found by clicking here.