Posted: April 20th, 2008, 3:15am UTC
David Lodge was an author I came across in the early 1990s, when I was a student at the University of Birmingham. He was once a lecturer there, and my flatmate who studied English, happened to have one of his books which I took an interest in. Subsequently became one of my favourite authors, especially for his sense of humour and ability to see irony. I met Lodge at the Hay Festival a couple of years ago (where the above picture was taken).
This is part of what I wrote afterwards:
Lodge is actually hard of hearing, and was conscious of not being able to pick ...