Margaret Drabble Q & A

       At The Believer online, Lydia Perović has a Q & A with A.S.Byatt's sister, Margaret Drabble, a fine writer in her own right.
       I certainly like her attitude towards historical fiction ("I know the plot. I know my Shakespeare. I know what happened. I don't need to read it to find out.").
       And then there's her take on (The Sea, the Sea, etc.-)author Iris Murdoch:

Basically, she was an androgynous figure. She wasn't really a woman; she wasn't a man, but she wasn't a woman. She was married to this elderly professor...

       Still, can't disagree re. Bayley's Iris .....