Brendan Hunt
speaker
297 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 4 May
Brendan Hunt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Counter publicity became a great...
a great play for them.
But mostly if you decline to be interviewed, the spotlight moves on to someone who is willing to be interviewed.
And reclusiveness isn't like some life hack.
Here's one easy trick to hit the top of the charts without ever having to get out of bed.
But
The idea is also comical because it's – the writer writes to connect and to impress.
We know that there's that human reality inside of it all, but we still – we revere the arts and we want to see them as outside of reality.
The ordinary life.
So it can be, you know, both exciting and then suddenly also really deflating when a figure becomes human to us.
When we see them in normal terms or see them, you know, fumbling around to find an interesting thing to say aloud when they're so brilliant on the page.
They can't manage it.
Whether they are talking a mile a minute and appearing on every social media possible or refusing all interventions and interactions, the parasocial is invented by the person who
is experiencing it.
And the book is subject to this as well.
You write them and they just exist and then they get to be read or dismissed or mistaken for other things.
And it's absolutely beyond your control.
Yeah, well, I mean, emulation is the path into creation.
Well, not just the arts, but nearly everything.
You learn to talk by aping the talk around you.
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