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Andrew Motion and Alan Hollinghurst: Essex Clay

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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I'd Like to Give Her the Book

The author has been reading a lot of ancient greek poetry. She is particularly interested in neuripides and the way he does appalling things. The elliad is, i read the iliad more than i read the odyssey. I like thinking about the kind of balmy, blocked, stuck craziness of those people.

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