All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Writer Jason Hazeley joins Andy, Una and Nicky for a celebratory investigation - or investigative celebration - of All the Devils Are Here, the ungovernable literary brainchild of the late David Seabrook and a book we first discussed on Backlisted in April 2016. (You can still find episode 11, which featured critic Rachel Cooke, in the usual places.) This extraordinary work of non-fiction was republished in the wake of our show, since which time it has gone on to find a whole new audience of readers, captivated and baffled in equal measure by its creeping, seething brilliance. In other words, Backlisted literally gave new life to an old book, and as a result it continues to haunt the streets of Rochester, Margate et al, taking notes and muttering to itself, before catching a bus back to Canterbury. What more have we learned about David Seabrook since All the Devils Are Here last featured on the podcast? What exactly do we mean when we describe the book as sui generis and a law unto itself? And just what is Kent's problem? Good luck, everyone! On Mon 27th Oct 2025, Backlisted is recording a show at 92NY in New York, on William Maxwell at the New Yorker. Tickets are available now from https://www.92ny.org On Wed 29th Oct 2025, we will be at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, NYC, recording a special episode on books by Bob Dylan, including Tarantula and Chronicles Vol. 1. Tickets are available now from www.bitterend.com* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes and exclusive writing, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted *You can sign up to our free monthly newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast which gives new life to old books.
0:14.7	The book featured on today's show is All the Devils Are Here by David Siegel.
0:25.6	Thank you. is All the Devils Are Here by David Siegel. First published in the UK and the US in 2002 by Granta Books.
0:32.9	I'm Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously,
0:36.4	and Inventory, an unreliable guide to my record collection.
0:39.8	I'm Dr. Una McCormack, award-winning author of speculative fictions, and Associate Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.
0:47.1	Hello, I'm Nikki Birch, the producer and editor of Backlisted and Sometimes Interloper on the show.
0:56.7	But before we go any further, it's my job here as interloper to remind you that we're going to be celebrating 10 years of giving new life to
1:01.3	old books by taking the show to New York City. Yes, for the first time ever,
1:06.4	backlisted will we be recording two episodes in the States. Yeah, on Monday the 27th of October,
1:12.7	we're going to be at the 92nd Street Y or 9-2MY in Manhattan.
1:18.5	And the subject of the show is going to be editor and writer William Maxwell.
1:22.1	With the help of two expert guests,
1:25.7	Deborah Treasman, fiction editor of the New Yorker and the Pulitzer
1:29.4	Surprise-winning novelist Jennifer Egan. So it's going to be very exciting. If you are in New York
1:35.2	or you're nearby or you want to have a great holiday to New York, please do come Monday the 27th
1:42.1	of October. Tickets are on sale at 92my.org and you can find that link
1:47.3	in the show notes. Meanwhile, two days later on Wednesday the 29th of October, backlisted will be
1:54.4	at small bongo drum roll, the bitter end in Greenwich Village, where we will be recording another special
2:03.2	episode, this one on the books written by Bob Dylan. We will be discussing tarantula, writings and
2:10.8	drawings, Chronicles Volume 1, and possibly, if publishing rumors are to be believed, Chronicles
2:16.6	Volume 2, and our guest,
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