Actor with little time reading a novel (9)
I believe the answer is:
tragedian
'actor' is the definition.
(I know that tragedian is a type of actor)
'little time reading a novel' is the wordplay.
'little time' becomes 't' (abbreviation for time).
'novel' indicates an anagram (letters in a new or novel order).
'reading'+'a'='readinga'
'readinga' anagrammed gives 'ragedian'.
't'+'ragedian'='TRAGEDIAN'
'with' is the link.
(Other definitions for tragedian that I've seen before include "Egad, I rant about dramatic actor" , "Dramatist" , "actor in Macbeth?" , "Egad, I rant about actor in sad drama" , "A great din (anag) - actor" .)