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Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Q&A with Mateo Askaripour

Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Bauer Media

Arts, Books

4.9994 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The best selling author of Black Buck talks us through some of his favourite books and authors, which include...Colson Whitehead, Jason Reynolds, Iceberg Slim, John A Williams and Candice Carty Williams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0

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0:52.2

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0:58.9

indeed. Okay, it's books of the year, myo at Caraport's book is Black Buck.

1:15.5

You can hear our conversation where you got this podcast, but this is the Q&A.

1:19.5

At the end of the podcast, Mateo, you just mentioned Stephen King's on writing and if we were if we

1:26.5

were gonna if anyone ever asked me for advice I would say listen to Stephen King read that

1:31.6

book because it is it is astonishing and there was just

1:34.5

one other line from that book which occurred to me when I was reading your book and that is

1:38.0

when he talks about honest dialogue and people who write to him and say I didn't like

1:42.1

the language that this character used.

1:44.4

I didn't, you know, whether it be course language or blasphemy or whatever, and he always says,

1:50.4

I am using honest dialogue. I am using the words that I think these people would have used and I think that's that's also something that comes through Blackbug. Anyway, this isn't part of the Q&A, it's just an opening observation.

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