Writing the perfect toilet book, with Jonn Elledge

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Bush interviews writer and journalist Jonn Elledge about his new book, The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything. They discuss the joy of facts, what Stephen keeps on his toilet bookshelf and the best sci-fi and dystopias.

Jonn’s book if available from all good book stores from 16 September

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stephen, and on this week's New Statesman interview, I'm joined by John Ellige to talk
0:09.2	about his new book, The Compendium of Not Quite Everything.
0:14.4	So, I'm joined by Psychometric Founder, NS Columnist, Matt Boderer, John Ellige.
0:29.2	Hello, this is very exciting, I've not been in this room for ages, if you've made it all fancy.
0:33.1	Yeah, we've, as you see it, it looks, I thought, I think it's a bit like a Pokemon evolution,
0:37.4	right, and then last time you were here, this really looked like a room.
0:42.1	And now it kind of looks a little bit like a studio, and that's...
0:44.8	Is a room that's cosplaying as a studio, is it?
0:46.8	Yeah, it's, it's getting there.
0:48.2	It's, yeah, it's, it's, but...
0:49.4	And I didn't have to assemble any microphones when they walked in, that's the change in the old days.
0:53.0	Oh, yeah, of course, yeah.
0:54.2	Yeah, we're, you know, we're lean, we're mean.
0:57.2	I think I was 18 months inside, none of us are lean, but...
1:00.5	We're definitely mean.
1:01.6	And we're green, or, as I think we're now meant to call it, ESG.
1:05.7	That's a very niche joke for anyone who works in advertising or marketing, though.
1:09.0	Anyway, moving swiftly on.
1:10.7	The reason why you're here today is you've written a book called The Compendium of Everything.
1:15.0	The Compendium of Not Quite Everything.
1:17.1	It's a very important distinction, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to give people
1:21.6	a misleading impression of quite how much of the world is covered in this, in this slim volume.
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