Zulfikar Ghose Q and A

       In The Friday Times Ali Madeeh Hashmi has a Q & A with onetime B.S.Johnson-collaborator Zulfikar Ghose, "Serious writers have dismissed what's demanded by the market".
       Ghose firmly believes:

If you write for an audience you are a journalist (not a writer). There has to be an internal compulsion or some overriding ambition like my school experience. The desire to write also comes from reading great writers. People who say they are writing for a certain kind of audience are only creating a product to market.

       Which might be one reason why you haven't heard anything from or about Ghose recently (or ever ?) .....
       Don't get me wrong: I'm fully on board with him here -- and I wish he were publishing more fiction, too (yes, I've read and enjoyed those novels from back in the day) -- but let's face it .....