Louis Theroux
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The travel writing is very well read and well regarded.
I grew up reading his novels first.
Oh, geez.
Yeah.
I think that was my brother.
Yeah, I think that was probably my brother.
I've got an older brother, but there's versions of himself in various of his books.
Although he's got lots of, you know, he doesn't exclusively write versions of his, some people just write versions of their own life.
He doesn't do that, but there are a few that do.
And he's typically got one son.
So I always think it's not a conflation.
It's mainly my brother.
But I don't, I never sort of set out to, you know, like the short version is I always thought, oh, I'm supposed to be a writer.
Like that was the family lore.
The family thing.
Yeah, the family thing.
Basically, you leave university and then you write a travel book or not.
Like that was the aristocracy of letters was a thing in our household.
That was what was the highest calling.
I think I probably still believe that.