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This episode features David Whitehouse discussing his Gordon Burn Prize-shortlisted nonfiction book About A Son. It's about Colin Hehir's battle to know the truth about his son's murderer. The book is written in second-person, which we get into
In this episode I interviewed Keith Blackmore, who edited Philip Gould’s book When I Die, which was published after Philip had died.Philip was one of the architects of New Labour, but in 2011 he had cancer. Keith, then the deputy editor at The
A slightly different episode, this time I spoke to David Wolf, editor of The Guardian Long Read, about their new magazine-format publication comprising some of their best pieces.David previously worked for Prospect magazine, so we talked a bit
I spoke to David James Smith about his book The Sleep of Reason, which is about the murder of James Bulger.David is a tremendous journalist who has written features for places like The Sunday Times Magazine and Esquire. We talked about his earl
This is an interview with Will Storr about his book The Status Game, which was named a book of the year by The Times and was recently championed on Joe Rogan's podcast. Will is my friend and former features editor. We started off talking about
This was a hugely revealing conversation with David Blum, who now works for Audible, but once wrote books. We started off talking about David's early journalism career, including the famous 1985 New York Magazine article about the Brat Pack, a
For this episode I spoke to American writer Jo Ann Beard about her latest collection Festival Days and her previous collection The Boys of My Youth. We talked about fact, fiction, creative writing, journalism, how her experience of a workplace
For this episode I spoke to Sam Knight about his book The Premonitions Bureau, published by Faber. It's nonfiction, about a phsyciatrist, a journalist, and an experiment they ran for a while to see whether people could predict the future. I won
In this episode I interview Michela Wrong about her book Do Not Disturb, which is about the murder of Rwanda's former head of intelligence Patrick Karegeya. We talked about her interviews with people who had been asked to murder Karegeya, what
After a bit of a wait, finally this is the Adam Hochschild episode. Adam teaches journalism at Berkeley, which we talk a bit about as well as some of his other books.The focus though was King Leopold's Ghost, published in 1998, which is about B
In this episode I interviewed American journalist and lawyer Alia Malek, whose work has been published by the New York Times and New Yorker. I spoke to her about her 2017 book The Home That Was Our Country, which is partly about moving to her g
In this episode I talked to Jon Ronson about his book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. We covered his career leading up to the book, how he nailed down the idea, how a book deal works for an author at his level, and what the impact of the book w
This episode I spoke to New York Times writer Jon Mooallem about his book This is Chance!The book is about a huge but little-known earthquake in Alaska. I talked to Jon about why he chose the story, how he got so much rich material, and how peo
In this episode of Logroll I spoke to Cathy Rentzenbrink about her book The Last Act of Love.The book is about her brother, Matty, who was hit by a car, and what happened afterwards. We talked about her early attempts to write about it, her app
In this episode of Logroll I spoke to Carl Anka, writer for the Athletic, about his book You Are A Champion, which he wrote with professional footballer Marcus Rashford. It is a book for children, so we talked about getting the tone right, as w
In this episode of Logroll I spoke to Suzy Hansen, contributing writer for New York Times Magazine, about her book, Notes on a Foreign Country. We talked about why she moved to Istanbul, how the idea for the book changed, and the things she inc
This episode I spoke to author Andy Miller about his book 'The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life'. We spoke about what made that book special, why he had such a gap between his books, and about writing about himse
This episode I spoke to Atlantic writer Helen Lewis about her book 'Difficult Women: A history of feminism in 11 fights'. We spoke about digging through archives, writing about complicated people, and the benefit of interviewing people as they
An interview with GQ writer (for the American edition) and author Chris Heath about his book about Robbie Williams, 'Feel'. We also talked about his Pet Shop Boys books, 'Literally' and 'Pet Shop Boys versus America'.Here is a link to buy Chris
An interview with author Terri White about her memoir 'Coming Undone'.Here is a link to buy Terri's book:https://uk.bookshop.org/books/coming-undone-a-memoir/9781786896810Terri also recommended 'Into the Woods' by John Yorke. You can buy that h
An interview with 'New Yorker' writer Ed Caesar about his book 'The Moth and the Mountain' and his career before he wrote it, including his debut book 'Two Hours'.
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