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S14, Ep4 How To Fail: Natasha Brown

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How Did You Engage With Contemporary Fiction?

I wanted to try and have as light a touch as possible with these ideas, because i felt that would remove some of the barriers to reading. I think one thing i'm very conscious of learning how to engage with literature is when we see that first person,. When we see that eye, there's sort of default identity that we assume as readers, and we know who it is. And for me, i felt, because i was using that first person from a slightly different perspective, i could either sort of try and put in a lot of detail to bring the reader up to speed - but i decided i wanted to trying and strip away as much as possible to leave room for the reader to

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