![]() ![]() Fox in 1987, and even though I didn’t know about it or read it until I’d finished writing about my own Mr. But also one of my favorite writers, Barbara Comyns, wrote a book about a wily man called Mr. ![]() Fox, that’s partly because calling it Mary Foxe seemed like bad luck for Mary-books and films that have a woman’s name as their title seem to end up with the woman dead or insane or bereft in some way, and I like Mary too much for that. This book is full of foxes and foxgloves and fox trotting and all things fox. Fox because I think of him as both wild and urbane also he’s a namesake of the English Bluebeard and an even older mythological lady killer, Reynardine (from the French for fox, Reynard). Ali Smith, Booker Prize–nominated, best-selling author of There But For The, and The Accidental, interviews Helen Oyeyemi about Mr. ![]()
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