Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All after words programs are also available as podcasts. It is so good to talk to you. Another book journalist. How do you primarily think of yourself these days . Guest i still very much see myself as a book critic. This book is just sort of an extension of that work. These days i feel like i am a political journalist and just using books as a means to that kind of work. Is that something that you steered clear of . I didnt have a sense that i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book. Reading other peoples books was plenty and i learned a little bit if i went through the process of writing a book it would be sympathetic to the authors and ruin me for my day job but i think that its been useful to see that side of the process and all the work that goes into creating that product i usually get at the tail end. Do you think its going to change . I think it almost has to. I want to see i suspected it had to in some way
Like im a political journalist use the book says a means to that kind of work. Obviously this is your first book did you know you always wanted to write a book as a critical or is that something you steer clear of . I do not have a sense i wanted to necessarily be an author or write a book reading other peoples books plenty in the process of writing a book to be far too much sympathetic warning me for my day job that has been useful to see with that side of the process is like and all the work going to finish that finished product i get at the tail end. With that change your approach is a book critic . I think it has to i know how it will. I want to see when im back into the swing of reviewing books but in some ways just beyond sympathy for authors i hope you will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking of where the book covers or how many chapters. I hope will make me better at my main job. Now you know the answers but before you get too far away he ran on read 150 books. What do
To you. I still see myself as a book critic. This book is gamma extension of that work but these days i feel like i am a political journalist and using books as a means to that kind of work. Or is that something you actually steered clear of it has to in some ways beyond just sympathy for so i hope that it will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking that goes into what a book covers and how many chapters. What is it that you do during the day then you read 150 books about the trump era it is a book about books like the book about coffee tables from seinfeld but i hope it simply uses books to try to understand a moment and get a snapshot of a moment so it could have been a lot of things. It could have been film, theater, fiction so its a book about this moment in america and civic life but what do you mean about the intellectual history . There are a lot of ways to imagine. It anticipated everything and ive done some of that myself, guilty but that isnt the kind of book i wanted t
With till today we asked political commentators peter oborne and professor Richard Murphy what exactly is going on on the left and the right of british politics as the Westminster Parliament struggles to hold the government to account during the pandemic and the banks it did you will finally arrives but 1st over to alex with your reaction to last weeks show whats your tweets messages and emails. Was a big reaction to last weeks show which featured a free talk. Over the 19 and a huge audience of face because well the 1st stop was from a vet an old friend of the sure that it has to come painless and she picked up the thought there are free medical experts all mentioned sustainability and Climate Change and population as a major factor and these are measuring viruses and they were the a number of people who were reflecting that perhaps a growing public skepticism about some of the official messages on covert and when some of them for example said i was really hoping that alex salmond woul
Side effects are and then why it says hi alec can you ask them why the survival rates arent being broadly advertised 99. 6 percent survival rate would be good to know your thoughts and jake said can you ask if this cold and flu will kill more people than traditional influenza over the next decade and this the public hysteria justify the governments actions but then of course other people see as so i mean does little Great Questions and form a divine insoles and leslie on says having lost an auntie to cope at 19 it breaks my heart to see people refusing to believe its real and that of course in the week we have a little daffodil top 1000000 people and lesley Sylvia Taylor says brochure this week that they can still be us from scotland really insightful with clear explanations of covert 19 the ongoing situation and i was hard working expats uprooting the time and great effort into finding all the kind of virus and hope to protect the general population from its very damaging effects and