Sadly for you I am appearing on the telly this Saturday night – thus ruining yet another weekend for you all with my relentless attention-seeking.
John Mullan along with a panel of judges read 57 novels published in the last two years, and between them they chose what they thought were the twelve most interesting. A Kind of Intimacy was one of the twelve.
You’ll disagree and come up with your own best and worst lists, of course – and I think that’s a good thing. I’m interested in what conclusions the panel of judges drew about where contemporary British literature is headed. Down the pan, according to some, I am sure.
Just in case you can bring yourself, the Guardian ran a piece about the Culture Show Special here. The show itself will be running on BBC 2 at 9pm this Saturday night.
Cool beans, Jenn! I’ll be watching for sure (I don’t mind making an exception of my never watching TV for this!).
And congrats again. Very cool!
Nik
Wow consider us all suitably impressed. Look forward to watching.
Cheers,
Sue
Thanks Nik and Sue.
I am sort of curious to see what to make of it, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to stand to watch myself on telly.
You’ll have to tell me how it went 😉
Will have a watch of it…hope the audience is more cheery than the grumpy comments on the Guardian that related to the article.
When you posted about upcoming publicity on WriteWords recently, I never guessed it would be as high-profile as this! Great timing for ‘Cold Light’ coming out.
My own pinnacle was an article in the Warrington Guardian, even that made me feel self-conscious. (I had more comments about the shirt I was wearing than the book). Don’t think I could handle TV at all.
Looking forward to the programme, Beebs 2 and 4 have doing a lot of novel-related docs recently.
Cheers,
Andy
Whoohoo! Well done! And you look great in the pic, so I’m sure you’ll come over well on the box. Go, Jenn!
You were fabulous – Congratulations!
Watched the programme last night Jenn. I haven’t visited your blog for a while, and didn’t realise you were going to be on. It was a really interesting programme, and well done! Fascinating listening to all the writers speaking about their work, all very inspirational xxx
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Hi Jenn,
Saw the programme on Saturday.
Very impressed.
You signed a copy of your book for me at Word Soup #1.
Best wishes
Dave
Thank you all!
Dave – Word Soup one was ages ago! I remember how terrified I was by it all. I don’t think they number the events any more, but I reckon they must be on Word Soup 15 or 16 by now – it’s a much slicker affair than the slightly wobbly first attempt I hosted. Do you still go? I’m going on the 24th because a friend of mine is reading. Say hello if you’re there!
Jenn