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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And to borrow the thing that Jonathan Rabin once said, people think that, when they think about where fiction comes from, they think, well, there must be some Latin word, fictio, means I make stuff up.
But it's the verb, it's a past participle of the verb fingere, which is the verb for shaping things, shaping on a potter's wheel.
It's a potter's finger on the wheel.
It's fiction.
And that thing about shape and structure is the big, big common fact.
It's less what you say and it's less how you say it.
But the thing about the importance of structure, selection, sequence, that's the thing that fiction and nonfiction actually have in common.
That's the big transferable thing I find.
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