Episode 85 - DBC Pierre: Part 4
from This Writing Life Hosted by James Kidd
The fourth and final part of DBC Pierre's conversation with This Writing Life podcast begins with a discussion of fraud. Pierre writes about this at the start of his excellent writing guide, Release the Bats, and hit headlines following his Man Booker victory for seemingly defrauding a former friend out of his house. ----more----After some Jeffrey Archer preamble, Pierre responds ('I think I can be concise'): 'There are in the liar and the bullshitter a great many qualities which are useful to fiction writing...It is incredibly useful to have been a bullshitter, but at a certain point you need to have made the distinction between what is and isn't.' 'I wasn't a happy fraud...You need to remain ignorant for that to work...' 'People bullshit because their worlds aren't good enough...' 'Life's too complicated to be disappointing' living up to Vernon God Little: Pierre on his life of writing parties, agents and writing with people looking over your shoulder the future (and beer at the Faber Social) Release the Bats is published by Faber & Faber and can be bought: here.
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