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Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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The Reality of the Double

I've always wanted to write a female double. Gothic literature, mostly the male double. I think Elizabeth Gaskell and a few others sort of also do have female bubbles. If you've been adopted, makes a lot of sense that you will have this thing that you're missing. And so it's therefore immense pleasure. So, if you look at Merritt Oppenheim’s fur cup and saucer and teaspoon, it was once just a, she just bought them in a, she bought a real porcelain cup and sacer and teaspoon in a department store. Then she thought, oh, I'm going to cover it with the pelt of a gaz

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