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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I usually kind of hug them back.
I like that my books live in the world and in people's imaginations, and I've been maybe just terribly lucky, but it's been a very charming thing for me to meet people who are
are crazed with excitement that I wrote something.
That hasn't gone south for me in any dramatic way, although I know there are such things.
You know, as stalkers out there, it's never been my particular curse.
Maybe I'll invoke it now by having this interview.
But the thing is,
I may be disappointing them by not being recalcitrant.
Who knows?
I may be too happy to see them.
It's better to be standoffish.
There's just so many different ways to disappoint people with your personal appearance when you've written a book.
A book is this sort of imperishable, abstracted object, and you can never live up to it.
All the time.
All the time.
Because, you know, I never thought I would be a...
you know, there's a, there's a mean word for it.
I never thought I would be a purple writer, but I think sometimes in my drafts, I, I, I get a little, uh, uh,
Baroque.
And so a lot of my revision work is cutting back specifically sentences that are hyper extended and finding ways to do less.
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