This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is critic and novelist Anthony Quinn. Anthony was the film critic for the UK Independent from 1998 to 2013, and has written six novels. The first, The Rescue Man, won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.
His latest book is of relevance to this show: Jurgen Klopp: My Liverpool Romance.
We talk about Klopp and about Liverpool; how a city that suffered ruinously during World War II have found their modern-day figurehead to be from Germany.
Anthony also has a host of terrific tips on writing, and he also talks of his high-profile stint as a judge of the Man Booker prize, which once saw him publicly disagree with the chosen winner.
Anthony’s picks were: Francis Thompson’s poem 'At Lord's'; John Updike’s short essay on golf, “Tips on a Trip”; The Sun’s headline after Celtic were shocked in the 2000 Scottish Cup by Inverness Caledonian Thistle
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