Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · The Midnight Train by Matt Haig with Matt Haig · 28 May 2026 podcast

Like I've genuinely, I mean, I was a child of the 80s.

So, you know, Spielberg movies and John Hughes movies, you know, that's just like.

And S.E.

Hinton novels and, you know, it's quite commercial tastes that I genuinely like, but things that are seen as commercial.

So sometimes when you're being accessible, you are being totally authentic to you as well.

So it's not always a case that being more obtuse or difficult is.

or personal even, is necessarily you being more true to yourself.

And I think in Britain, it's sort of doubly so, you know, because we have class systems.

So we therefore have a class system of books.

We have high, middle, low books.

Yeah.

Well, I think there's an Anya Hinmarsh boots, isn't there, somewhere in...

i don't know i'm going i'm going now there is but um yeah no i i so i i think because i'm i'm quite an annoying person and i'm quite sort of like trying to sort of like rebel against myself even sometimes so i almost am drawn to unfashionable things sometimes like stubbornly because because i recognize that certainly like

When I was a young man and I did an MA in literature and you're sort of encouraged to think a certain type of thing is literature and you're taught to be suspicious of story, happy endings.

This is what they teach you at an MA?

Subconsciously.

I feel like, you know, well, that's how I sort of took it when you sort of like look at the reading list and if you study a lot of like French critical theory and you're just taught to sort of like be suspicious of meaning.

And I think a lot of my favourite sort of

old books are from before that era, from sort of like before modernism.

So like, you know, you've got Count of Monte Cristo, you've got the sort of Sherlock Holmes, you've got, there's something in sort of late 19th century fiction about,

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