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Brian Dillon & Jennifer Higgie: Affinities

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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The Limitations of Autobiographical Intimacy

I think I'm always as a writer, slightly anxious about loss of control. And that in itself is a limitation that I've learned to live with because there are also these moments where I can allow something else, something messier and more personal to kind of drift in. So I am probably often afraid of losing the reader by being a bit too intimate or embarrassing or embarrassing myself. That was a real hook for me.

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