In today’s conversation with acclaimed British author Geoff Dyer, whose fourth novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is published this week, we discuss the writer as an obsessive, the difference between addiction and obsession, what Burning Man meant to Geoff, and why he always favors tone over plot.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reports on the Google Books Settlement – a legal challenge may yet be filed… watch this space. Or rather, listen to it. And France cracks down on internet piracy.
In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she finds a site that claims to reveal ten steps to create the habit of writing (Peter’s not convinced…).
Links: The Write Report, Write To Done
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The podcast isn't working! The podcast isn't working! What's that Skippy? I haven't turned the volume up on my laptop and I'm an idiot? OK……
Should be Ok now. I think you may have tried to listen just as it was being uploaded. We were a bit late today!