John Lanchester
speaker
548 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
John Lanchester’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, sort of the ink doesn't appear on the page.
Yeah, no, I, can you think of any?
Yeah, well, that's quite revealing, isn't it, what that's about?
Yeah, but maybe that's because in a sense, what happens is that people develop a private language and there isn't access to it from outside and there's nothing really to say.
I mean, Gore Vidal once said the problem with the novel is that in contemporary America, everyone thinks it's just about marriage.
And that, it strikes me as interestingly not true anymore.
It's not really a subject.
And Will Self once wrote a very funny story that's literally about adultery in Hampstead.
And what's interesting about it is it's quite original.
There actually isn't that much fiction about adultery and hamster.
And we'd all like more.
Exactly.
Yeah, the dates would fit that.
I think she's probably Gen X, millennial cusp.
Gen Z, sorry.
No, Gen X, Gen X. She's that middle bit.
I mean, to be honest, I think that's slightly bollocks, the extent to which the distinctions are so done now.
I was talking to Evan Davis about it on PM, and he was saying that when we were, because we're the same age, and he said an interesting thing, which hadn't occurred to me, that it just wasn't a thing people discussed.
It was only invented about 15 years ago, this thing about these rigid generational...
And I think it's partly downstream of marketing that it's much easier, you know, marketing culture likes dividing us up so that we can be sold to a separate distinct groups.
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