Hanif Kureishi,
A Collection
COLLECTED ESSAYS.
INTRODUCTION.
THE WRITER'S TIME.
This collection begins in the early 1980s, and as far as I can recall, The Rainbow Sign was the first essay I ever wrote. My then editor at Faber, Robert McCrum, had approached me about publishing the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette and suggested I write an introduction to it, since it might seem thin on its own. [read more]