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Sophie Mackintosh & Rebecca Watson: Cursed Bread

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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The Dream of a Dystopian World

I'm hoping that people will kind of enjoy that kind of dreamlike state, which is more the kind of thing I was aiming for. If you are expecting a very specific kind of dystopia, which is fleshed out and you're kind of exploring things, you're maybe not going to get what you signed up for. But yeah, like having, being able to like take something and use it as a launching off point to have this exploration of, you know, like ideas and that freedom to kind of move in a world that is uncanny and not quite ours. It's really lovely term: "vulgar ambiguity" My agent gave me some sort of fruitful ambiguity, which

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