Matt Haig
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2,177 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Matt Haig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · The Midnight Train by Matt Haig with Matt Haig · 28 May 2026
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Because it doesn't always feel like, some chapters feel like, yeah, they should be 12 pages.
And sometimes it's just like a chapter can be like a,
I thought or something, and I don't know.
Have you ever read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino?
Oh, you mention that in here.
But that's like one of the shortest books ever, and that's one of the reasons why I like it.
It's one of those things, it's like 90 pages, and each chapter is just a different imaginary city.
They're all versions of Venice, basically.
I think it's Marco Polo talking to Kublai Khan and trying to say to Kublai Khan, oh, you've got this amazing kingdom because you've got all these cities, but they're all made up cities.
And I love it because you can actually open it.
So it's actually, even though it sounds super highbrow, it's super accessible because you can just pick it up at any page and just read that in that moment.
Yeah, and it's sort of talking about how I was probably feeling.
As soon as your writing becomes your career, you've sort of got that in your mind.
Because you're thinking, how much am I writing for me versus how much am I writing because...
you know, it's expected of me or there's a contract or, you know, so it's finding, it becomes a question the further you go in a career, doesn't it?
How much is, this is just what I'd be doing if I was starting now.
If I was starting now, is this what I'd be doing?
And it's impossible to know.
And it can work both ways.
Because like, I mean, my tastes naturally are quite commercial.
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