A new in-depth interview by author and academic James Riley is just published by 3am Magazine.

Riley is the Muriel Bradbrook Official Fellow in English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge.

Here’s a taster from Riley’s intro:

All too easily we take ‘experiment’ and ‘experimental’ to mean a certain kind of art – rarefied, obtuse, difficult for its own sake and thus distanced from the world and its concerns. White’s writing, particularly the epic scope of Phantom at the Feast is the exact of opposite of this. It’s bound up with an intimate knowledge of genre fiction, and the application of Oulipian techniques is not there to flummox, but to both power the creative engine of the writing and furnish the novel with a very particular type of historical and social material. It is as if White has taken an archaeological sounding of his chosen period and then put it to work, brilliantly, in the novel’s wider narrative.

Read the whole interview on 3am Magazine…

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