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Time now for Meet The Author. Luke Brown and Antonio Hodgson | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
first`time novelists. Hodgson's book is an 18th`century... | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
Luke Brown's My Biggest Lie is a funny portrait of the publishing | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
industry. Two different books, but they have something in common, they | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
are both publishing editors. `` of their authors are both publishing | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
editors. This book is set in the 18th`century | :00:37. | :00:56. | |
prison, a grim place. For those who don't know, give us a brief | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
description. This is a place that people went when they had no money | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
which happened a lot here. It is just after the great financial | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
collapse. People were thrown into this prison that was run for profit. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
There is a weird situation where although you have no money, you're | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
still bled dry by the keeper who would charge you for everything. At | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
the same time, on one half of the prison, it was reasonably | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
comfortable. On the other side, it was where people really were in | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
trouble, they were starving and dying. They carried the bodies out | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
every morning. Seven or eight and light. The trick was to stay on the | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
right side of the wall. This is based on facts. Several of the | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
characters in the book were historical figures. Absolutely. The | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
keeper at the time was later put on trial for murder for the brutal | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
treatment of the prisoners. This is a sort of, to use a technical term, | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
Schaller makes. It is a whodunnit and historical accounts. I love the | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
idea of having a murder mystery in a prison. The sense of claustrophobic | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
and having to solve the murder before he was the next victim. I | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
thought it had its own innate tension. Luke, yours is based on | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
fact, too, it is a satire on the publishing industry. There is a | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
hero, not unlike yourself, I suspect. He goes to Buena 's errors, | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
why? It begins with him being drummed out | :02:49. | :03:00. | |
of the publishing industry after being dumped by his girlfriend. He | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
holds itself responsible for the death of his kind of father figure, | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
a Booker prize`winning novelist. To get over his shame and to try and | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
redeem himself and live life more truthfully, a lot of those problems | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
come from the fact he's a liar and storyteller, he flies to Buena | :03:20. | :03:32. | |
Cyrus, there's an irony that as Buenos Aies is one of the... One of | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
the things that strikes you is his absolutely enormous consumption of | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
alcohol and illegal drugs and equally enormous consumption by | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
people around him. If the publishing industry really like that? May be on | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
the fringes. Most of the publishing industry are people working hard in | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the office. But the world of publishing he works in, he has a | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
very bad role model, his boss. He takes a lot of drugs, he is known | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
for publishing notorious authors, the rock stars and the film stars, | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
so his mythology of being this had a nest is very helpful for him as. `` | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
hedonist. People will look at this and save ER real characters. They | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
are just thinly disguise. Not at all. I have borrowed details from | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
myself and details from archetypes, the salesman editor or the drunk, | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
but ultimately it is an amalgamation of different characteristics. My | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
friends are still queueing up to play themselves in the book. You | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
were until recently a publishing editor. And you still are editor in | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
chief at Little Brown. There is a line in Luke 's book, a few things | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
less dignified than adept who rates. `` and editor rights. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
That question is always hard to and so. You just wants to write. You | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
just do it. There is no, for me, anyway, thinking that I would quite | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
like to write a novel one day. It is always something I wanted to do. I | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
always told myself stories. Really, it was a question about discipline. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
So was getting a job in the brushing her displacement, the nearest you | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
could get to the right? Iraq I don't think so, I realised early that I | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
was rubbish at everything. I was good at reading, writing and talking | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
about books. Everything else, I was hopeless at. There was no choice in | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
the matter. Does your experience of being in editor and publisher, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
hasn't made it easier for you? In some ways. I think it has helped me | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
get over some anxieties. I can recognise the hot points, the places | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
where for instance after you finish the book, but before it comes out, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
where there is nothing you can do and all you can do is wait to get | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
the response from readers. It is a very, very emotional scary time. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Although it didn't stop me feeling those things, I could recognise them | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
and think that is a funny period. I could tell myself to calm down. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Luke, is it something you had always wanted to do? To become a publisher | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
to become a writer? No, but it was borne out of the same impulse. I was | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
reading and writing, I've always read a lot and I am interested in | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
style. They were born from the same impulse, I think. I am not sure I | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
would not have been a better editor if I did not write, I may have read | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
more, but as a writer it gives you a creative route into the novel, as | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
well, and allows you to look at things in structural ways. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Thank you both. Good evening. Today, we managed to | :07:28. | :07:41. | |
get up to 19 Celsius in the south`east corner. There's cold air | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
coming down from the North, coming behind this belt of cloud. It | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
brought a change to the weather. Still thick enough, it gave us one | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
or two hit and miss showers. Many places becoming dry and the cloud | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
retreats | :07:58. | :07:58. |