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6 December 2018updated 21 Sep 2023 4:22pm

The night that changed my life: writers share the cultural encounters that shaped them

Jonathan Coe, Eimear McBride, Simon Armitage, Musa Okwonga, Olivia Laing and others recall life-altering moments. 

By New Statesman

G1EW9H Die britische Punkband Sex Pistols, 1970er Jahre. British punk band Sex Pistols, 1970s.

Read all the pieces in the New Statesman’s “The night that changed my life” series, available now in our Christmas special issue.

Rose Tremain on interviewing her teenage icon: “He is 77 and I am 57. My hands are shaking. My heart is furiously beating.”

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