Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Importance of Illness in Your Work
M, i tend to want to push my characters into situations that they feel sort of uncomfortable in. Oco, i what's the significance of illness in your work? I notice you write about it quite a lot. M, and one of the wayis that i do this is by seconto xual desire. So my characters feel that they lose control of themselves when they are overwhelmed by uncontrollable n like uncontrollably strong desire for another person. Am, so they're not really me. But ye, i mean, you've really got me there.
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