David Mitchell Q & A

       In The Moscow Times Andrei Muchnik has a Q & A as David Mitchell Talks About Moscow, Literature and the Future.
       The Cloud Atlas-author disappointingly says: "let's try to avoid politics", but at least manages to insult some of his audiences:

How do Russian readers differ from those of other countries ?

Russians are surprisingly philosophical, you are more Germanic and less American in the sense that your questions are quite deep and theoretical. There was one girl who asked me, "Do you agree that writing is the dialogue with the unwritten." You don't get that in Milwaukee.