London Review Bookshop Podcast

Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People

May 7, 2019
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Can Everyone Hear Me?
02:13 • 2min
3
Then, He Said, I've Never Had Sex on That Mattress
04:02 • 2min
4
The Ghostsday
05:48 • 2min
5
The Ghost Stage by Car Ofm
07:36 • 2min
6
A Novelist's View on Character in a Novel
09:31 • 2min
7
The Story That Was Abandoned, and Then at the Clene
11:34 • 5min
8
Relationships of the Future?
17:00 • 3min
9
What I'm Interested in Is Normality
20:23 • 2min
10
M, I'm a Writer and I'd Like to Write a Novel
22:45 • 2min
11
Anxiety and Precarity and Auto Fiction
24:28 • 2min
12
I'm Just There With These People, Not Like You and Me
26:13 • 3min
13
Does It Work?
29:26 • 2min
14
Writing a Socialist Novel? M, Is It Even Valuable?
31:08 • 2min
15
Am, I'm Not Writing a Novel to Show That the Patriotism Is Bad
33:00 • 2min
16
Is This a Novel About Class Dynamics?
34:41 • 2min
17
Ae, You're the Book of the Year?
36:45 • 2min
18
I Don't Think the Profit Making Model Is Good for the Arts
38:26 • 3min
19
A Novelist's Review
41:08 • 2min
20
Is There a Relationship Between Politics and Your Books?
43:22 • 2min
21
The Politics of Empathy
45:10 • 3min
22
Writing a New Novel
47:55 • 2min
23
How Do I Tell the Story of These People?
49:35 • 2min
24
Am, I'm Really Enjoying It
51:08 • 2min
25
Is It a Novel or a Book?
52:51 • 2min
26
How Do I Tell a Story?
54:23 • 2min
27
How to Write a Novel in a Book, M, M and M
56:19 • 2min
28
Is There Speech Marks in Your Novel?
58:38 • 2min
29
The Ending of a Normal Ple
01:00:38 • 2min
30
The Ending of a Novel
01:02:29 • 5min
31
I'm Having to Think About It
01:07:36 • 3min
32
Is There a Love Story Between Two Characters?
01:10:10 • 2min
33
The Importance of Illness in Your Work
01:11:55 • 2min
34
M, I'm a Sceptical of Individual Autonomy
01:13:52 • 3min