London Review Bookshop Podcast

Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue

Jul 26, 2023

47:50

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Episode notes

Introduction

6min

The Cost of Living: A Story of a Woman Who Has Reconstructed Herself Through Piano Playing

4min

The Man Who Saw Everything

3min

The Reality of the Double

4min

Elsa Anderson's Double

2min

The Double New Thing

5min

How to Write a Book

4min

The Back Story of Yacob

4min

The Doppelgangers of Septimus

4min

10.

The Shadow by Hans Christian Anderson

3min

11.

The Piano and the Pandemic

5min

12.

Hot Milk: A Novel About a Doppelganger

6min

Novelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy read from and spoke about her novel August Blue, a mesmerising story of how identities, coalesce, collide and collapse. She was joined in conversation about August Blue with the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, author of The Examined Life.

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