Claire Fuller, Hunger & Thirst

[piano music] Welcome back to another episode, where today I am so thrilled to be sitting down with Claire Fuller for her latest book, Hunger and Thirst, which is so good.

It is so delicious.

I also have to tell you, I love this cover so much, but [laughs] I ordered the UK cover yesterday, which I love equally as much.

[laughs]

And I saw on your Instagram you talking about it, and you know what really sold me as the final thing? Is the fly in the inside on the book itself.

Oh, no. Shall I go get a copy and-

Yes, yes-

... for the, for the viewers?

Yes, yes.

Get a-

So this is the UK hardback and, yeah, under the...

There's a fly.

There's a fly.

Which won't mean anything until you read it, but it-

No

...

it is, uh, it, it certainly has its p- its point and I was like, ugh, such a wonderful detail.

I always wanna...

I think I still wanna do an episode at some point and have someone from the UK on and just do a run of American covers versus UK covers because there's such a debate always about w- who does the better covers, and there's so many times that I'm like, "Well, I have to get that copy," 'cause whatever reason.

And I also, with books in the UK, I find your paper stock feels so much better than a lot of the American books.

I don't know what that is.

Mm.

And you guys do a lot of, they do a lot of sprayed edges over there.

Yeah.

It's much more prevalent than in the U- the US.