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Literary Friction - Year (and Decade) in Review 2023
mardi 19 décembre 2023 • Durée 01:21:07
It's time for our usual Year in Review show, but seeing as this is also our last EVER episode (sob!), we're shaking things up a little to bring you a bit of a decade in review as well, so we can look back over our highlights from ten wonderful years of Literary Friction.
This show is stuffed full of recommendations, including our favourite reads from this year and books we're looking forward to reading in 2024, but also the books we're happiest to have found through the show. So, if you need inspiration for what to get your friends and loved ones this holiday season then listen closely! You can find a list of all the books mentioned at the link below.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us make the show over the years, to all the brilliant authors who have chatted with us, and most of all, thank you all so much for listening.
Find a list of all recommended books at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/december-2023-year-and-decade-in-review
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction
Email us: litfriction@gmail.com
Literary Friction - A Life of One's Own with Xialou Guo
jeudi 30 novembre 2023 • Durée 59:17
What does it mean, to pursue a life of your own? And what is art and literature's role in figuring out what that might look like? This month we're delighted to be talking to writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, whose latest book Radical: A Life of My Own is both a personal lexicon and a memoir, which thinks deeply about what it would mean to truly forge a life of one’s own.
As we announced on our last minisode, we’re wrapping up Literary Friction at the end of this year, so this is our last author interview. Xiaolu is a really fitting last guest, because of how she thinks about things like language, translation, freedom and radicality through literature, which are many of the themes we’ve returned to again and again over the last decade of shows. Don’t worry though - this isn’t our final episode! We’ll be bringing you a bumper edition of our year in review in a couple of weeks’ time.
Recommendations on the theme, A Life of One's Own:
Octavia: The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Carrie: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
General Recommendations:
Octavia: Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Xiaolu: Art Monsters by Lauren Elkin, and Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
Carrie: Trust by Hernan Diaz
Find a list of all recommended books at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/december-2023-a-life-of-one-s-own-with-xiaolu-guo
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction
Email us: litfriction@gmail.com
Literary Friction - Dark Comedy with Lorrie Moore
jeudi 20 juillet 2023 • Durée 59:07
Dark humour - do you love it or hate it? Do you find it cathartic or macho? Can humour ever be too dark, and is it a useful political tool? This month our guest is the one and only Lorrie Moore, who joined us to talk about her latest novel, I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home, a story about grief and ghosts and history that is equally funny as it is philosophical. It follows Finn, who in 2016 is visiting his dying brother in a hospice in New York. Finn's stay is interrupted by the news that his ex-girlfriend Lily, who worked as a therapy clown, has killed herself, which sets off a road trip with her talking corpse. All this is punctuated by letters from a boarding house proprietor in the post-Civil War American South, about a mysterious lodger that has come to stay… Tune in for all of this, plus the usual recommendations.
Recommendations on the theme, Dark Comedy:
Octavia: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Carrie: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
General Recommendations:
Octavia: Open Throat by Henry Hoake
Lorrie: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
Carrie: The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes
Find a list of all recommended books at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/july-dark-comedy-with-lorrie-moore
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction
Email us: litfriction@gmail.com
Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction
Literary Friction - The Science Of Bias With Jennifer Eberhardt
mercredi 15 mai 2019 • Durée 01:00:00
We know that literature - like all culture - is biased, but can books also be a way of recognising and combating stereotypes? Our guest, Dr Jennifer Eberhardt, is widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on racial bias, and her new book Biased is a comprehensive look at the science of unconscious bias and how it affects our society. With this show, we’re continuing our conversation about race and literature that we started with Reni Eddo-Lodge and Kishani Widyaratna in 2017 (you can find that show in our archive). Specifically, we're looking at racial bias: what it is, how it damages our society, and if there's anything we can do about it. So, join us for the next hour as we try to further decolonise our minds.
Email us: litfriction@gmail.com
Tweet us and find us on Instagram: @litfriction
Recommendations on the theme, The Science of Bias:
Octavia: Swing Time by Zadie Smith https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/565/56513/swing-time/9780141036601.html
Carrie: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2016/invisible-man-by-ralph-ellison/
General Recommendations:
Octavia: Whereas by Layli Long Soldier https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/layli-long-soldier/whereas/9781529012804
Carrie: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/lisa-taddeo/work/three-women
Jennifer: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224792/just-mercy-by-bryan-stevenson/9780812984965/
On Minisode Four we're thinking about our literary guilty pleasures - those books we might not want people to know we read, because we fear their judgement, or maybe we even judge ourselves a little for enjoying them. Basically it’s all about shame! Have you ever hidden the cover of what you’re reading so no one will know? Is there anything you’ve been embarrassed to buy in a bookshop? Are there books on your shelves that you hide when people come round? Listen in for some secrets and revelations, plus some cultural stuff we've been into lately.
Recommendations:
Fleabag https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p070npjv/fleabag
The Dropout http://abcradio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/
Uh https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/tracks/n5xv42
The Other Side of the Sea https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/contemporary/heloise-werner-the-hermes-experiment/
Literary Friction - Poetry With Hannah Sullivan
mercredi 17 avril 2019 • Durée 58:20
In the words of celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, “if prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it”. Whether you’re into Frank O’Hara or Emily Dickinson, Audre Lorde or e. e. cummings, Walt Whitman or Sylvia Plath, we’ve got something for you in this poetry-themed show. Our guest is poet and academic Hannah Sullivan, who joined us to talk about her evocative debut collection, Three Poems, which explores the intimacies and intricacies of life, from sex and love and being young in New York, to the birth of a son, and the death of a father. So, come get lyrical with us and we might even drop some rhyming couplets over the next hour on Literary Friction.
Email us: litfriction@gmail.com
Tweet us and find us on Instagram: @litfriction
Recommendations on the theme, Poetry:
Octavia: Witch by Rebecca Tamás http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2019/01/rebecca-tamas/
Carrie: Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara https://groveatlantic.com/book/meditations-in-an-emergency/
General Recommendations:
Octavia: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/my-sister-the-serial-killer/
Carrie: Terrific Mother by Lorrie Moore https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/7029/s/9780571351831-terrific-mother/
Hannah: A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford https://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/product/book/a-compass-error/
Literary Friction - Minisode Three: Red Flags
mardi 2 avril 2019 • Durée 27:35
The writer Laura Relyea recently tweeted the question ‘What books are automatic red flags for you with people?’ and it got over 12,000 likes and 4,100 responses. We thought we'd stick our oars in as well, so join us for Minisode Three, in which we get into red flags, literary snobbery, books as cultural capital, and whether it's ever ok to judge a person by their reading habits.
Literary Friction - Migration With Valeria Luiselli
mardi 26 mars 2019 • Durée 01:00:00
In a world increasingly dominated by xenophobia and wall-building, this month we wanted to look to the books that cross borders instead. So our theme for this show is migration in literature, from the novels of John Steinbeck to Zadie Smith. We've been wanting to talk about this for a while, and we waited for the perfect author guest to explore this with us. We spoke to award-winning Mexican author Valeria Luiselli, whose latest novel Lost Children Archive is about both a road trip one family takes across America, and child migrants on the US/Mexico border. So, come and tear down walls with us for the next hour on Literary Friction.
Literary Friction Special - Yelena Moskovich Live At Jewish Book Week
mardi 19 mars 2019 • Durée 47:23
We're thrilled to bring you this podcast special: a recording of our live interview with author Yelena Moskovich at Jewish Book Week. We talked about Yelena’s second novel, Vituoso, queer identities, crossing boundaries and disobedient women of the ex-Soviet diaspora, amongst many other topics. Enjoy!
We’re very pleased to report that Minisode One went down really well so we're back with another one for your pleasure. Last time we talked about books we hated, so this month we decided to get into characters we love. But, like, love love: we explored our literary crushes - from Behemoth the cat to Virginia Woolf - and the intimacy of reading. So tune in for chat about literary desire, and to hear what other cultural things got our pulses racing lately.
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