#330 Nick Hornby: Getting Published, Dealing With Rejection
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emma gannon
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Nick Hornby is the author of many novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, Juliet, Naked and others, and now he has a new book Just Like You which I thoroughly enjoyed and is out in paperback.
He is also the author of Fever Pitch, a book on his life as a devoted supporter of Arsenal Football Club and many of his books have been turned into iconic films. In 2009 he wrote the screenplay for the film An Education, in (2014) the screenplay for Wild — and in (2015) the screenplay Brooklyn. In this episode we talk about creative advice, thoughts on rejection, being published, why he wanted to write diverse characters in his new novel Just Like You, a book about connecting with each other despite how polarised the world seems to be right now. Thanks for being here, I hope you enjoy our conversation!
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| 0:57.9 | Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete podcast. My guest today is Nick Hornby. He is the best |
| 1:03.3 | selling author of many novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, Juliet Naked, and many others. |
| 1:09.6 | And he now has a new book out called Just Like You, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and it's out in |
| 1:14.4 | paperback now. He is also the author of Fever Pitch, a book about his life as a devoted supporter |
| 1:19.7 | of Arsenal Football Club, and many of his books have been turned into iconic films as well. |
| 1:25.3 | In 2019, he wrote the screenplay for the film and education, and he's also written the screenplay |
| 1:31.0 | for the film's wild and Brooklyn. Three films I absolutely love. In this episode, we talk about |
| 1:36.7 | creative advice, thoughts on rejection, being published, why he wants to write diverse characters |
| 1:41.9 | in his new novel Just Like You, and it's a book about connecting with each other, despite |
| 1:47.4 | how polarise and divided the world seems to be on many things right now. So I hope you enjoy |
| 1:52.3 | this conversation with Nick Hornby. So welcome Nick Hornby to Control or Delete. This is a real |
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