Gordimer Interview
Nadine Gordimer, who has recently edited Telling Tales, a collection of short stories to benefit an AIDS treatment campaign in South Africa, is interviewed about her work in Newsweek.
Do you expect readers to buy the book out of a sense of duty?
It’s not at all a charitable duty to buy this book, I didn’t want it to be. The storytellers in the book reveal the marvelous possibilities of the written word. Their tales are for us to enjoy and whilst reading them support the millions among us in southern Africa who already have HIV/AIDS or are vulnerable to contracting it. The number of children born with HIV here is heading