Inside Hanif Kureishi’s Shattered: A Raw Journey Through Fame, Family, and Fragility
This is both a miracle and a terrible dependency. In my experience, all artists are collaborationists. If you are not collaborating with a particular individual, you are collaborating with the history of the medium, and you’re also collaborating with the time, politics and culture within which you exist. There are no individuals (15-16).
It sparks his own revelations about writing, revising, editing, and expanding the dispatches with his son, Carlo. Writing as a collaborative act becomes a sort of freedom for Kureishi. He collaborates with not only his son but with genre, form, subject matter, and other cultural/political topics. Collaboration in writing opens the door for his acceptance of collaboration in other areas of his life, where his accident has made collaboration a necessity.
