Luke Kennard

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543 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Luke Kennard & Will Eaves - Black Bag · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

But like, I don't want them to feel kind of put off.

So I'll be like, look, this is good, but I think you're probably better than this as well.

Like you could probably go further with this yourself.

So you're trying to be kind of sensitive with it.

I just don't think it has much because I think most of the time when you're writing, the truth of when you're writing anything is that there comes a point in any story where you're just a lab rat in a maze and you have to try out like 11 different possible endings or possible ways of getting to an ending and decide which one is the most meaningful.

And maybe a large language model could give you that.

But then you'd lose out on all of those nights just kicking a balloon up and down your hallway.

And that's being alive.

Yeah, kick the cat.

What was the thing you always used to say?

It was like, I just recommend that you read a book and the student would say like, what book?

And you just start with any book.

Yeah, yeah.

Start with a book.

Just pick a book at random off a shelf and read that.

That would be a really good place to start.

You just said a lot of wise things.

And then what?

So I came across it just while I had like 12 tabs of like articles open in a browser, like most of us are probably familiar with doing.

And I was looking for a title for a poem, I think, and I was reading into...

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