Pastiche, Parody, Lampoon

Monday’s seminar at the British Library was somewhat tedious. Fortunately the opposite was true on Tuesday when the guest speakers were Craig Brown, who writes the diary page for Private Eye, and authors John Crace and Sebastian Faulks.

Yes, they all had books to plug, but they treated the audience to a reading of some of their best works and a discussion of how they set about writing their masterpieces. Pure genius.

Hopefully, the British Library will make a podcast available.