John Banville arrives for the first interview in The Currency’s new podcast series Experience carrying a bag of books from Hodges Figgis. When we arranged to talk, I believed he still worked each day from an office on the quays but he tells me when he arrives that he gave that up before the pandemic. He has instead come on a DART from his home in Howth for the interview. As he travelled in, he would say later in this podcast, he reflected on how his life in some ways now resembles that of his father, of whom he said…

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