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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So sometimes people have asked me if it came from that.
And very, very usefully, I used it for a subsection of the memoir I wrote about my parents.
So I'm trying to be able to say this with a straight face.
I haven't been able to manage to.
But I think Taylor Swift got it from me.
But no, it's a very, as I said, it's a phrase I used before and it's not unrelated.
My mum would sometimes do things slightly like that in a slightly martyred way.
And that's where it is.
Blaming other people for...
in his novel, Brooklyn, where she's leaving to emigrate to America.
And her mum says, I won't bother getting up in the morning to see you off.
You'll be gone.
And kind of goes to bed at eight.
And that's a look what you made me do.
wonderful or uh unsettling no you know were you nervous no i don't i mean i i i never know and part of the reason for the planning thing is i don't know i'm going to be able to finish it until i finish it so it's a funny combination it's a flow state you know i like that thing of sort of disappear into a book while you're writing it i could there's a funny i can never remember what was going on around me i mean i couldn't tell you
I actually can't remember when I started writing it with any clarity.
It was at some point during COVID.
And with other things, I can tell you what was happening in life.
There's definitely a sort of psychological compartmentalization goes on.
And I like that bit about, you know, that part of the day spent just sort of somewhere else.
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