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Episode 33 with Kim Newman – novelist & film critic
“My novels are my purest me.”
Episode 33 – Kim Newman – Show Notes
- Novels as favourite medium, loose outlines and historical research
- Takeout coffee and working in the dressing gown
- As a critic putting people into boxes but as a writer refusing to be put in a box
- Reading, time and never having had a real job
- The way writing as a career has changed since 1980s
- Buying first computer with money from writing for porn magazines with Neil Gaiman
- Editors used to have more time to deal with and develop new writers
- Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Patrick Hamilton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe, Ramsay Campbell, Peter Straub, David Thomson, Greil Marcus
- Criticism and deadlines
- The need for a continuity person during novel writing
- Big file full of random film quotes
“Some people don’t realise I’m the same person.”
“My critical range is not good or bad but interesting or dull.”
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