![]() The journalists inquired upward, and were told not to worry our little heads. News International no longer recognized our contracts of employment. When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world.” In “Union Blues,” an essay that ran in this magazine in 2003, he described being temporarily laid off from the London Sunday Times, and subsequently revealed the phrase he most regrets having written:Īs a by-product of a labor dispute with the printers, everyone else at the paper-all fourteen hundred of us-was informed that we were suspended. In an interview with the Paris Review, in 2000, Barnes remarked that “I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction…. Some may be unaware that Barnes also worked as a reporter in London during the late seventies. ![]() Despite profuse apologies from my fellow-countryman, our hostess refused to speak to him for several days. ![]() Apparently, the effects of pharmaceutical overload on the porcine digestive system are spectacular, and not quickly over, either. He, to his shame, had large quantities of prescription drugs in his suitcase, in non-pigproof containers. I subsequently learned that an earlier guest-an Englishman, too, and one of the politest men I know-had been negligent in the same way. ![]()
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