Riddley Walker

Wide-ranging interview originally published in The Literary Review, 1984. Reproduced on the Head of Orpheus with their permission.

Jim Poyser's short but profound 1998 interview with Russell Hoban on the subject of strangeness, on the occasion of the issue of the Expanded Edition of Riddley Walker. Also contains a review of the latter. Originally published in The Bloomington Voice and NUVO Newsweekly. Selected by Poyser in 2015 as one of his career highlights, he says (at http://www.nuvo.net/GuestVoices/archives/2015/03/27/nuvo-at-25-poyser) the interview was the most popular story he ever published in NUVO.

Excerpt (pages 83-105, 220-21) from David Cowart, History and the Contemporary Novel (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989). Copyright 1989 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. Reprinted at The Head of Orpheus by permission of the publisher.

To celebrate its 21st anniversary in 1992, the British publisher Picador invited 21 of its best authors to write about one of the years from 1972 to 1992, from their own perspective. Each piece was written especially for the collection, which includes essays by, among others, Tariq Ali, Julian Barnes, Clive James, Tama Janowitz, Ian McEwan, David Profumo and Russell Hoban. Choosing the year 1975, he contributed this, along with a drawing of Punch (not included), made while he was working on Riddley Walker.

Appreciation of Riddley Walker by novelist David Mitchell.

2005 interview by The Scotsman, in which Russell Hoban talks about The Mouse and His Child, Riddley Walker, his then-new book Come Dance With Me and the impending "Russell Hoban Some-Poasyum", a fan convention held in honour of his 80th birthday.

Fascinating and comprehensive resource site annotating Russell Hoban's classic 1980 novel Riddley Walker, providing notes on the novel's many themes, motifs and characters. An essential guide to the novel whether you're reading it for pleasure or study.

An account of visiting Waterford, Ireland for Red Kettle's November 2007 theatrical production of Riddley Walker.

Brief video from the Guardian Book Club event on 22 November 2010 in which Russell Hoban answers an audience question about the rhymes and songs in Riddley Walker.

Account of the evening at the Guardian event in London, from the SA4QE website. Mostly about Riddley Walker.