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Titled as “Tagi,” it featured Mr. Lloyd reciting excerpts from the “Bhagavad Gita” before picking up his saxophone for a glowing rendition of his theme.

This dossier was then leaked to U.K. newspaper the Daily Telegraph, which published excerpts over the past week.

The most important of these was “The Portable Faulkner,” a perceptively organized anthology of novel excerpts and short stories, for Viking Press in 1946.

Below are edited excerpts from a conversation in which he discussed rebuilding his professional life, his experiences at a controversial comedy festival in Saudi Arabia and finding his way as a novelist.

Audio excerpted with permission of Penguin Random House Audio, read by the author.