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Book Club: Nicola Barker

Book Club: Nicola Barker

Best of the Spectator · The Spectator

August 6, 202526m 34s

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Sam Leith's guest on this week's&nbsp;Book&nbsp;Club podcast is Nicola Barker, talking about her new&nbsp;book&nbsp;<em>TonyInterruptor</em>&nbsp;-- about how a man who interrupts a free jazz concert becomes a viral sensation on social media. Nicola tells Sam why some of her&nbsp;books are bouts of the flu and some are sneezes, how hard she works on her apparently spontaneous prose, why she remains devoted to reality television — and about the time she went to visit&nbsp;Martin Amis with a ghetto blaster.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>