2008: Zoe Heller on the challenge of belief
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In this interview Zoe Heller talks to Philip Dodd about the themes and characters in her book, 'The Believers'. Heller discusses the challenges of writing about deeply held assumptions and questions whether readers should expect to like the characters they meet in fiction. Philip Dodd also questions Heller about the remarkable success of her novel 'Notes on a Scandal' and the impact of her former career as a journalist on her novels.
Lukas Heller, Zoe Heller's father, wrote the screenplays for both 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' (1962), starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and 'The Dirty Dozen' (1967).