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Olivia Laing - You're Booked

Jun 21, 2021

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How to Read a Dickens Novel

2min

The Late Life Love Affair With Julie Cooper

2min

The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

2min

Persuasion by Julie Austen

2min

Jane Eyre: A Middle Aged Pleasure

2min

Cathy Acre: A Counterculture Version of Jane Austin

3min

The Secret Door to a More Adult World

2min

How to Make Your Book Relevant to American Readers

2min

10.

The Art of Water

2min

11.

The Importance of Researching Art

2min

12.

The Importance of Caricatures

3min

13.

The Collapse Between Public and Private

2min

14.

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

2min

15.

The Refusal of History

2min

16.

How to Write a Biography of Andy Warhol

2min

17.

The Role of the Phone in Modern Life

2min

18.

The Golden Age Detective Novel

1min

19.

The War in the Sixties

2min

20.

The Pandemic: A Novel About Life and Death

2min

21.

How to Survive a Pandemic

2min

22.

The Tenderness of Loom

2min

23.

The Pandemic Novel

2min

24.

The Importance of Furniture in Novels

3min

25.

The House of Simon and Dan

2min

26.

Captain Picasso's One Word Review

1min

27.

Tales From the Corny Room

3min

This week we are thrilled to present an illuminating chat with one of our favourite all-time writers: Olivia Laing! Olivia is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her novel Crudo was a Sunday Times bestseller, a New York Times notable book, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths and Gordon Burn Prizes and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her latest book is Everybody: A Book About Freedom. We talked to her about Warhol’s wigs, Kathy Acker as a teenage totem, Jilly Cooper revelations and a Henry James slam courtesy of John Cheever.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

Olivia Laing - Crudo

Olivia Laing - Everybody

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice