Ben Pester

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327 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Claire-Louise Bennett & Ben Pester: Magic & Mechanics · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

I nodded at nearly all of it.

Okay.

Why are you nodding, Ben?

Because it's an excellent description of how it feels, I think.

But also, and I especially love the idea of not getting carried away, like being careful.

I think that...

That might be one of the things that I enjoy the most about doing the writing, actually.

There's that sort of moment... I suppose every writer has different ways of describing that feeling, but I feel a little bit... Oh, it's a loaded word these days, but I feel a little bit naughty, you know?

I feel like I'm doing something just a little bit... sort of wrong, almost, because I don't do... I know that I'm not going to do what should happen next, if that makes sense.

And I know that...

Well, actually, if anyone knows my work, then maybe they know this, but otherwise you wouldn't.

But like my work is kind of considered slightly sort of off kilter or weird or whatever, but that isn't necessarily what I mean.

I think it can be quite a straight piece of writing or sort of normal and it can still have that feeling.

You're really surprising yourself a little bit and allowing yourself to hide the thing that's coming next from you or you're excited to get to it.

I think that's how I feel.

And I do a lot of my writing, I write in a notebook, but I also type mostly when it's like the work that I'm doing.

And you get to a moment where you're sort of,

I suppose this is a combination of magic and mechanics.

If you wanted to sort of put them in there, I think it's a great, I do think it's a great way of describing it afterwards.

But at the time, maybe this is a sort of, you could apply this feeling because writing is thinking of something and then you sort of convey it.

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