As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast “les Rencontres” highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi. 

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Maddie Mortimer, writer of “Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies”, her first novel published by Picador in 2022. Together, they discuss the importance of music in Maddie Mortimer’s writing process and how pop culture is an inspiration to her

Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, © Picador, 2022.

© Maddie Mortimer, for the Foyles blog.

© National Centre For Writing.

© The Booker Prizes.

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Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2022.

Used with permission of the BMJ from Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Laura Grace Simpkins, 2022; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost, © Princeton University Press, 2002.

© J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007, Harry Potter.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Random House Children’s Books 2005.

Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere, © Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, 1925.

T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland, © W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

© Faber & Faber.

© Faber Academy.

Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City, © Abacus, 1997.