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I Want to Talk to You

And Other Conversations

Diana Evans author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:6th Feb '25

£18.99

This title is due to be published on 6th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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'There is a depth and integrity to Diana Evans’s writing; every piece feels beautifully sewn together and complete’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO

I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She’s wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. 'You can lie down if you want,' she says. 'I mean it’s fine, be comfortable.' So I lean further back into the pillows, feigning being comfortable.

As a young magazine intern, Diana Evans was catapulted overnight into the role of culture editor, and so began her career as a journalist, writing about musicians, dancers and artists, interviewing the likes of Viola Davis, Alice Walker and Edward Enninful.

In these portraits of contemporary icons, the author remains the observer. Alongside them, in pieces collected here for the first time, we also see her turning the lens on herself. We watch as she dances on stages in London and travels through Cuba. We sit beside her desk as she develops her voice as a writer, shaped by her love for Jean Rhys, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. We walk by her side as she navigates the world – her family and the midlife sandwich, reflections on fashion, yoga, the British monarchy and lockdowns, and the lasting impact of George Floyd and Grenfell.

Crafted over twenty-five years, with the intelligence and sensitivity for which Diana Evans is celebrated, I Want to Talk to You invites you into a conversation about literature, art and music, identity, and everything in between.

???????'Truly insightful, conversational and unique... Absolutely brilliant' ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS
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Intimate and moving... Elegant in tone and finely wrought in form' EKOW ESHUN

There is a depth and integrity to Diana Evans’s writing; every piece feels beautifully sewn together and complete -- BERNARDINE EVARISTO
Luminously questioning, always intelligent and unafraid of confronting the impact others can have on us -- ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS, author of The Three of Us
An intimate and moving meditation on the mysteries of writing and the pleasures of reading. Elegant in tone and finely wrought in form, it is a deeply insightful, and also profoundly enjoyable, collection -- EKOW ESHUN, author of The Strangers
A celebration of a career that has been anything but ordinary and an intellectual mind forever evolving. A blueprint for all of us straddling between fiction and journalism, who want to create meaningful, transcendent work -- CHARLIE BRINKHURST-CUFF, editor of Mother Country
One of our most outstanding writers * Bernardine Evaristo *

ISBN: 9781784744243

Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 25mm

Weight: 400g

256 pages