Views jump 11x the channel's usual pace

Marlon James calls writing "detective work" on WSJ. Style

The novelist's new Job Interview joins conversations with Demis Hassabis and Rosalía as the channel's daily views climb to nearly eleven times their usual pace.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 615,134 views a day, 11 times a normal day (56,325).

Research can be the tempting part of writing a novel, at least in Marlon James's telling. His new WSJ. Style interview puts that preference right in the title: "Why Marlon James Would Rather Research Boring Stuff Than Write | The Job Interview."

The conversation arrives as the channel draws roughly 615,000 views in a day, far beyond its usual pace. That is a channel-wide rise, not a result that can be credited to James's interview alone. The longer Demis Hassabis interview, published a day earlier, has also continued drawing views.

James describes writing as detective work and discusses the research behind "The Disappearers." The interview also covers how he celebrated winning the Booker Prize, what he learns from his students and habits for becoming a better reader. Among the books he singles out is Jessica Hagedorn's "Dogeaters."

It is a different working life from the other guests on the channel's recent slate: Hassabis discussing the sale of DeepMind to Google, and Rosalía explaining the place of "Love Island" in finishing "Lux." For James, the attraction is the investigation that comes before the finished page.

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