Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast special today.

Today we're interviewing Will Storr, who is the author of the book Selfie, which has a subtitle, How We became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us.

Now, I have to say, Mark, this has been a very important book.

You've spoken about it quite a bit,

actually. Yes. In recent months, sorry, I've read it. And it explains who we are and how we got

to where we are and our obsession with ourselves. If you don't think you're self-obsessed,

you might, after we speak to him, might think you are.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But I think there's a lot to go through in this.

But I think it will be worth it.

He's a good guy, Will.

And I think this is a really interesting bloke, isn't he?

So I'm really looking forward to this one.

Yeah, I think he's got a lot to say.

And this is not like a self-help book.

He's spent for years writing this, isn't he?

Well, we don't know how long he spent actually writing it,

but he looks like he spent a long time

because he's been all over the world meeting people.

It's like a proper project this.

And it's not just about, yeah, it's not fluffy by any stretch of imagination.

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