[W. H. R. ] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.
Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives