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Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Ocean Vuong and Max Porter

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Is There a Danger in Overpolicing of Language?

I think that yes there are these structures and particularly in this Trump era where the white supremacy becomes first it it selfishly takes up our energy. I've learned as a teacher that a lot of the difficulty is language itself or sometimes they just don't have the language to talk about certain things. We need to create space and time for slow thinking and care and attention to detail when we use this most precious this most precious gift amen to that round out of time words. Did you choose the cover of this of this book and if so how did you come to choose this cover? Yes I did it's a cover it's a photo of me my mother my aunt and we it was not my

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