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The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Peter Akinti (view source)
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* '''BB: What are you reading now?'''
PA: Not reading anything right now. Iām trying to finish my second novel. Me and the wife have just had a baby boy - We heard somewhere that James Salter wrote a good love scene so we started reading his novel [[Sport and a Pastime by James Salter|Sport and a Pastime]] together at nights to try to get over the whole home-birth experience. That lasted three days - my little boy wasn't having any of it. The last book I read was [[The Lover by Marguerite Duras|Marguerite Duras's ''The Lover]]''. I had to sit still for five minutes, slurping coffee with envy after I read the opening to that book...
''One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place, a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said: "I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged."''