Claire-Louise Bennett

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283 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

Is it?

Well, it's quite nice.

And it's a very nice title for a book.

Is it that way around?

No, not really.

What's what, like writing?

You know, writing.

Maybe they're intertwined a bit more or something like that.

I think, well, you know, I can only speak for myself.

I guess, I don't know whether I'd call it magic, but there's something that sort of happens as I write.

So it's not like I have sort of an inspiration particularly sort of, you know, prior to it and I think, oh, I've got to, you know, write this down or what have you.

I sort of write without anything in particular just because I like how writing feels.

So the reason for me writing is just to be writing.

Because, like I said, I've always quite enjoyed how it feels, you know, the sort of just doing it.

It makes me feel like I'm, well, doing something.

And I don't, there's not many things I like doing.

for very long periods of time, but I can write for long periods of time.

So that makes me feel like I'm sort of doing something kind of vaguely worthwhile, which is a nice sort of feeling to have, because a lot of the time I'm not very usefully employed.

So that's really what's going on there.

And then ideally then when I am writing, what feels even better is then when, you know, it's sort of this, there's a sense of some energy kind of happening.

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