Literary Friction - Conversations With Sally Rooney

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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We have a very meta show for you this month: the theme is conversation, so we’ll be talking about writing about talking, from the conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities to the pithy dialogue in Bridget Jones’ Diary. You could even say that it’s a conversation about… conversations! As usual, our theme is inspired by our guest Sally Rooney, whose excellent debut novel Conversations with Friends tells the story of two female friends and former lovers, and the complicated relationship they fall into with an older married couple. Listen in and tell all your friends!

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0:00.0	Welcome to literary friction. I'm Carrie Plitt here as usual in the NTS studio, very hot today, NTS
0:11.1	studio with my co-host Octavia Bright. Hi, Octavia. Hi, Carrie. Are you hot? I'm in a bikini.
0:16.5	No, you're not. You're lying. I could be. I should. I wish I was. Wow, we have a very meta show for our listeners this month, don't we?
0:23.8	We do. I love meta things. You do. The theme is conversation. And so we'll be talking about people,
0:29.9	talking to each other in literature, from the conversation between Marco Polo and Kubla Khan in
0:34.6	Italo's Invisible Cities to the pithy dialogue in Bridget Jones's diary.
0:39.7	You could even say that it's a conversation about...
0:42.3	Conversations!
0:46.3	Shameless.
0:48.3	So, as usual, our theme is inspired by our guest.
0:50.9	Octavia, can you introduce her?
0:52.2	With pleasure.
0:53.2	Our guest today is the Irish
0:54.5	writer Sally Rooney. Her debut novel Conversations with Friends, which is obviously very on theme,
1:00.1	tells the story of two female friends and former lovers, Frances and Bobby, and the complicated
1:03.9	relationship they fall into with an older married couple called Nick and Melissa. Sally studied
1:08.4	English at Trinity College Dublin and her writing has been featured
1:11.1	in the Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly and Granta. And she's very young. And she's very young.
1:15.5	And really great. The book is really great. Yeah. And youngness shouldn't matter.
1:18.6	No, it really shouldn't. But I said it. So we'll be talking to Sally, discussing the theme more
1:23.7	generally and also giving some book recommendations. So join our conversation for the next
1:28.5	hour of literary friction. I like what you did there with the conversation. Sally Rooney,
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