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S1, Ep5 How to Fail: Olivia Laing

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Is Hemmingway a Good Writer?

i didn't really understand why writers drank when i wrote the trip to echo spring. Because i'd hardly written any books, i didn't realize that the sense of failure gets greater and greater. So i can see why you might want to drink a bottle of rum a day really. That seems quite intelligible. Ye, yes, i feel very daunted by it. And actually, after i got the windhom campbell price, which was completely amazing and wonderful, i felt very depressed for a while because i just felt like i'm not capable of living up to these things in my work. Like so hot about the work that you've done. It's the work that's ahead

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