Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today is a writer and filmmaker whose work is steeped in the life and landscapes of London.

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  He first made his name with avant-garde poetry before his dystopian novel,

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  Derm River, won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in 1991.

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  Much of his writing shines a light on outsiders and those pushed to society's edges,

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  such as tracing the M25 in London Orbital, which was later turned into a documentary.

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  His latest book, Pariah Genius, turns its gaze on John Deacon,

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  the overlooked photographer who chronicled Soho's post-war bohemia,

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  capturing the likes of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

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  Part psycho-biography, part fiction,

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  it evokes the vanished mid-century world and has also been reimagined as a short film.

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  Insinclair, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you very much.

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  Now, we were just looking at some old photographs,

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  and I'm just trying to figure out what year we're talking about.

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  It was 2015.

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  I've got it now.

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  You and I were at the Book Fair in Guadalajara in Mexico.

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  And for some reason, you meet one other person.

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  I can't remember who that other person was.

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