On Writing and Failure | A Drink with Stephen Marche

Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson talks to novelist and essayist Stephen Marche about the one secret of being a writer that no one ever talks about.
In this clip, Stephen takes us through the hard lives of famous writers and how perseverance in the teeth of ongoing rejection is the essence of a writer’s life.
Stephen Marche is a novelist and essayist. He is the author of half a dozen books, most recently Death of an Author- an AI collaboration under the pseudonym Aidan Marchine. He has written opinion pieces and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, Vanity Fair and many others.
This conversation was recorded as part of the Idler's weekly online event, A Drink with the Idler. The full recording is available to magazine and Academy subscribers. Visit the website to join: www.idler.co.uk/