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Feb 23, 2021 29 min

Analogous Patisseries

from The LRB Podcast Hosted by The London Review of Books

Mary-Kay Wilmers, who retired as editor of the LRB last month, talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her career, first at Faber and Faber, then the Listener, then for 42 years at the London Review of Books. She talks about working with T.S. Eliot, the importance of being teased, and how a joke by Alan Bennett changed her life. The episode also contains extracts from Wilmers’s 1988 diary for the LRB, ‘Putting in the Commas’, and O’Hagan’s piece about Wilmers in the latest issue of the paper. Read and listen to them in full here: Mary-Kay Wilmers: Putting in the Commas Andrew O'Hagan: Miss Skippit Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b

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