Fever Pitch

And so our idea was to present something that looked like the TLS or the LRBs was published in the same format, long scholarly essays, not much pictures, not many pictures, but all about mass culture.

And I think in the first issue we published for the first time, Nick Hornby before he'd written Fever Pitch.

We published a piece by David Runciman, who went on to become a professor of politics at Oxford, on watching porkies in Romania when it was still behind the Iron Curtain.

We also published a piece by someone called Chris Weitz, a Cambridge graduate, who went on with his brother to co-direct American Pie, the porkies of our generation.

Anyway, uh, it did lead us to think, Perry, when you, you know, you think you're good at something and then you come up against someone who's professional or incredibly good.

And I think, you know, that's what Nick Hornby talks about in, doesn't it, in Fever Pitch.

You know, he talks about Gus Caesar, who had...

Basically to the point he got into the Arsenal setup, I think somebody would've known.

Mm.

So he write, he writes High Fidelity for the music fans, and he writes Fever Pitch.

So this is an English book?

It's an English book.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

But it's originally set, uh, in the UK, and, and, and obviously Fever Pitch, which I would recommend directly to you, Harry, as being, like it would've been my second choice if, if High Fidelity didn't exist.

It's what you wrote for football fans.

London boys that loved Arsenal.

Nick Hornby, who wrote the book Fever Pitch.

It was reinvented.

Yeah,