On being Cancelled | A Drink with Eleanor Catton

Author of Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton talked to Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson about environmental activism, literary thrillers and the polarised modern debate in this episode of 'A Drink with the Idler.'
In this clip Eleanor discusses Birnam Wood and her experience of being cancelled in the New Zealand media.
Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries, winner of the Man Booker Prize and a global bestseller. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Betty Trask Prize, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austen’s Emma for feature film. Born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge.
This conversation was recorded as part of the Idler's regular online event, 'A Drink with the Idler'. The full recording is available to our subscribers on our website. Join now for exciting conversations: www.idler.co.uk/

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Among other things, the cameo of the Sean Plunket caricature is brilliant.