Barbara Kingsolver: ‘What does love feel like? At 16, breaking the speed limit. Years later, a warm bath’Rosanna Greenstreet interviews novelist Barbara Kingsolver for the Guardian, where the 71-year-old author of Demon Copperhead describes love as breaking the speed limit at 16 and later a warm bath. Among her answers: she taught herself to read at three, and the FBI phone-tapped her for over four years in the 1980s over her legal human rights work.