David Hayden

I'm calling from the least Irish place in England, Norwich.

When I first came to Norwich, I went out on the broads with my kids and the guy who was on the boat that we went on said, ah, yes, you've come from London.

It's like, well, Norwich is the place where dreams come to die.

So, you know, all my kids' jaws was just like dropped to the chest.

I'm stunned with gratitude and happiness to be.

David, how do you feel about that?

I can only choose one.

Waterstones are actually a thing.

You sharpen knives with them.

So, you know, you go into Waterstones, you can't sharpen a knife there.

There's books.

I hate the fact that we lost the apostrophe.

This is the best answer to this question.

Completely.

I remember there's loads of these, but I remember one occasion somebody came in and said, do you have any books by Kirk Agard?

It's probably my favourite of those, of which there are many.

I'm sure you've got your own.

It's a terrifically sharp piece of writing and it was like it started a tsunami of engagements with it and it almost gave rise to the whole new world of feminist art criticism as well as encouraging new art practice amongst women.

Absolutely brilliant provocation.

I read a single story in two different anthologies and kind of moved on.