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	Podcast:		Front Row
	Episode:		Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Andrew Sean Greer, Comic fiction
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:29:17
	Publish Date:		2018-05-22 14:25:00
	Description:		Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks to Kirsty about balancing performance and writing, and discusses her latest role as L3 the first female droid in the Star Wars franchise. Andrew Sean Greer has just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his comic novel Less, about a failed novelist who embarks on a trip round the world rather than attend his ex-lover's wedding. He discusses writing about gay marriage, ageing and why the win came as a surprise. Following the announcement that the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for UK Comic Fiction is being withheld for the first time in its history, journalist and critic Arifa Akbar joins Andrew Sean Greer to discuss the current climate for writing comic fiction. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Caroline Donne.
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