Lionel Shriver, THE MOTION OF THE BODY THROUGH SPACE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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I had so much fun interviewing Lionel Shriver about her latest book, The Motion of the Body Through Space. Lionel's previous novels include the international best-seller We Need to Talk About Kevin, among other terrific books like Double Fault. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Lionel is witty and insightful and has her finger on the pulse of contemporary culture, as evidenced in the narrative and characters in The Motion of the Body Through Space. Our conversation was sprinkled with laughter as we talked about her novel, which highlights what she calls today's "cult of exercise" and how exercise has become somewhat of a spiritual pursuit plus a socially competitive activity. We also explored the experience of aging especially as an athlete. I loved her advice to aspiring authors: "write whatever you damn well please!"

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1:23.4	Lionel Shriver about her latest book, The Motion of the Body Through Space.
1:32.9	Lionel's novels, previous to that, include The New Republic, so much for that, the post-birthday world, and the international bestseller, we need to talk about Kevin. Her journalism has
1:37.5	appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications
1:41.1	she currently lives in the United Kingdom. Welcome, Lionel. Thanks so much for coming on. Momsone. Have time to read books. Oh, it's nice to talk to you. Frankly, these days it's nice to talk to anybody. Don't take that wrong. It's fine. I know. I feel like a lot of the people I'm interviewing are just like, it's nice to see another face. So that's it.
2:02.2	I'll just be that extra face.
2:03.7	You probably have a hard time getting rid of them.
2:09.6	I mean, that's fine with me.
2:12.1	It gets, you know, then I can put my kids on their devices and go in another room and hide out.
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