Working in the Bathtub: Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière

"I've translated ten of Laferrière's novels and a good deal of his other writings, having met him in the mid-1980s, and I thought I knew all there was to know about him. Not at all. Adam Gollner's portrait of the man and the writer opens up the landscape to the fullest, adding a more reflective side to Laferrière. Not without playfulness, of course, but Gollner has managed to draw out something graver behind the legendary artful humour. His willingness to follow Laferrière to the various places where he has composed his books shows his true commitment to his subject. -- David Homel, Award-winning author and translator.

Dany Laferrière, a member of the Académie Française (thus nicknamed an "immortal"), is one of my favourite writers, so Adam Leith Gollner's Working in the Bathtub: Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière was always going to interest me. What I was not expecting was to enjoy most Laferrière's commentary on finance. And it is true, what he says (I paraphrase): Banks don't understand money. You want to understand money, you ask a writer.
Jade Colber, 20 Oct 2020, The Globe and Mail