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Episode 160: Kathryn Bromwich (music journalist and novelist)

35 min • 6 juni 2023

Kathryn Bromwich is one of the best music journalists plying their trade in Britain today. She’s a writer and commissioning editor on the Observer New Review, but I first encountered her when she was working as the acting deputy editor of the forever missed Guardian Guide. Before that her words on pop culture appeared regularly in Dazed, Vice, Time Out and The Independent, and astute and entertaining words they were too, but I think some of her best ever work has been the revelatory articles she’s written for her paymasters about her experience with long Covid.

That's a theme that has informed her debut novel, At the Edge of the Woods – in shops now - which we principally talk about on this episode. It is a excellent opening salvo for a side hustle that I hope will produce many more original stories. But first. A woman. In the woods. With secrets. And pain. And the arrival of a face from her past...