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The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Marcus Chown (view source)
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MC: Titles are the most difficult things and I drive my wife up the wall on holiday, going through endless poetry books, song titles, and so on, looking for that elusive title. This one just popped into my head during the writing of the book. In fact, I can remember exactly where it was. I was coming down the stairs from the first floor to the ground floor of our house and it just popped into my mind. I'd of course read [[We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver|Lionel Shriver's novel We Need to Talk About Kevin]]. In fact, later, I went to a talk given by Shriver at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Unfortunately, I was too shy to go up afterwards and ask whether she would write an introduction.
I'm so glad you like my title. I can honestly say I have never had such a response to a title. In fact, at the ceremony for the 2010 Royal Society Book Prize, someone came up to me and said: ''I laugh every time I hear your title.'' But I do agree with your review of my book that [[Here''s Looking At Euclid by Alex Bellos|Here's Looking at Euclid'' ]] is genius! Wish I'd thought of that one.
* '''BB: ''We Need To Talk About Kelvin'' has been shortlisted for the [http://royalsociety.org/science-books/ Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010] - congratulations; it's richly deserved! Have you read any of the other shortlisted books? What did you make of them?'''