Last week I spoke with Graham Foster at the Anthony Burgess Foundation about Norman Douglas and his role as a character in Burgess’s masterpiece, Earthly Powers. Burgess’s novel tells the story of a closeted gay novelist, Ken Toomey, who is haunted by the vision of Norman Douglas’s rapacious sexual appetite. Foster and I talk in this podcast about who Douglas was and why Burgess chose him to represent his hero’s worst nightmare.
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