Colm Tóibín

But I know I should have been listening to Olivia talking about publishing, but I was looking at his jacket.

And I didn't really know, again, I didn't know what to do.

I mean, you can't really ask people who are known for their intelligence where they got their jackets.

But I asked Joachim if he could very, you know, cautiously, perhaps politely ask Olivia.

And he told me the name of the company in Paris.

And I immediately went there because I wanted to, I wanted to have this sort of,

I was going to say suave authority, but just very, very kind man.

And he's very intelligent and he's, he's who I want to be really.

And so I went immediately to that shop in Paris and I immediately bought this, I bought another jacket and a pair of trousers.

And then when I went back again to Paris recently, I bought a second one.

It has, see it's red inside.

which may be my inner cardinal.

And the trousers are the same.

And so I feel that I carry with me as I wander around some of the moral authority and sort of general, let's say, understated talent of people, of Olivia Noah, of...

of Lydia Davis and of Anne Carson.

And then the shirt, I'm sort of all the wrong shape.

So my shirt is XXL.

I mean, it couldn't be bigger, from Adolfo Dominguez in Barcelona.

But then I discovered online they had better shirts.

And so I ordered a whole lot of them, a big load of them.