The Hatchards Podcast

By: Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey
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  • The Hatchards Podcast is a conversation show about books brought to you by England’s oldest bookshop. Featuring interviews with some of our favourite authors, bookish waffle, and the occasional glass of wine. Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey.
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Episodes
  • Lili Anolik on Didion & Babitz: Joan’s Bethlehem vs Eve’s Bedlam

    Lili Anolik on Didion & Babitz: Joan’s Bethlehem vs Eve’s Bedlam
    Dec 24 2024
    On this episode, we were joined by Lili Anolik, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and author of Didion & Babitz, a provocatively entertaining account of the feud between two key countercultural voices of the 1960s and '70s – the iconic Joan Didion and the lesser-known Eve Babitz.

    Lili spoke us to about her decade's long obsession with Eve Babitz, her scepticism of the Didion mystique, and the crucial role that Los Angeles played in the development of these two literary titans.

    Covering everyone from Charles Manson to Marcel Duchamp, Lili takes us headlong into two tumultuous decades, demonstrating why Eve Babitz considered Los Angeles in the 1970s to be the Moveable Feast that Hemingway and Fitzgerald experienced in the Paris of the '20s.

    Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey. Produced by Lily Woods.
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    41 mins
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Third Realm: Transcendence, Translation, and Twin Peaks

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Third Realm: Transcendence, Translation, and Twin Peaks
    Oct 22 2024
    In this episode, we were joined by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of one of the key literary phenomenons of the 2010s, My Struggle, to discuss his latest novel, The Third Realm, the latest instalment in the riveting Morning Star series.

    Karl Ove spoke to us about his journey toward becoming more at ease in literary interviews, his relationship with his work in translation, and how music informs one’s sense of identity—contrasting, for instance, his youthful love of punk and R.E.M. with his daughter’s of Ariana Grande. We also discuss “artistic preciousness” and how he has evolved from seeing writing as “sacrosanct” to being able to work at the kitchen table despite constant interruptions.

    Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey. Produced by Lily Woods.
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    40 mins
  • Richard Ayoade on The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: Salinger, Sanctimony, and Spinal Tap

    Richard Ayoade on The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: Salinger, Sanctimony, and Spinal Tap
    Oct 8 2024
    On this episode, we were joined by the iconic actor, writer, and filmmaker Richard Ayoade to discuss his latest comic novel, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, a fictional accounting of his quest to canonise the most significant British playwright of the 20th century (who also happens to be entirely made up).

    Richard spoke to us about the figures that influenced the invention of Hughes–among them Harold Pinter and Orson Welles–and the ill-fated film Hughes authored, "O Bedlam, O Bedlam", which stopped the prolific playwright from ever writing again.

    He expressed scepticism about the myths and exaggerations that create "great lost works" and literary recluses and discussed why it is important to approach comic writing from the inside out rather than trying to make fun of your characters.

    For good measure, we also discuss his deep love of "Spinal Tap", Joan Didion, and the time he spent acting in Wes Anderson's "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar."
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    39 mins

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