Literary Friction - Dancing Time with Jacqueline Crooks

Literary Friction

Arts

4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dancing can be about escape, about pleasure, but it can also be about protest. It can be a powerful means of expression, but how does writing capture all that movement and rhythm? And what does good writing about dancing do? With us this month is Jaqueline Crooks to talk about her dynamic first novel, Fire Rush, an intoxicating story about the dub reggae scene in 70s and 80s London. Told from the perspective of a young Black woman named Yamaye, it’s also about love, loss, freedom and finding family. In honour of Crooks’ evocative depiction of the dub scene - and especially the dancing that goes on in it - we’re dedicating this show to dance in all its forms. We’ll be talking about dance subcultures, our favourite dance scenes in literature - from balls to clubs - and lots more, plus all the usual recommendations. Enjoy! Recommendations on the theme, Dancing Time: Octavia: At The Old Place by Frank O’Hara Carrie: The Instant by Amy Liptrot General Recommendations: Octavia: Older Brother by Mahir Guven, translated by Tina Kover Jaqueline: Radical by Xiaolu Guo Carrie: Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker Find a list of all recommended books at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/mar-2023-dancing-time-with-jaqueline-crooks Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to literary friction.
0:24.1	I'm Carrie Plitt here as always,
0:26.1	Down the line with my co-host, Octavia Bright.
0:29.3	Down the line from London, I should say.
0:31.4	That's right.
0:32.7	Hi, Octavia.
0:33.8	How are you?
0:34.9	Hi, Carrie.
0:35.9	I'm sorry that down the line has become a thing now.
0:38.5	That's definitely my fault.
0:54.3	It's very much your fault. Normally I like to share the blame, but no, not in this case. Well, I'm fine. I'm feeling guilty for that. But apart from that, I'm fine. No, I mean, I'm going to take a minute to just complain about the weather because it has been the filthiest, filthiest weather for the last few days, and I'm feeling
0:58.9	completely stir-crazy as a result, actually. How about you? Yeah, well, I'm really hoping by the time
1:04.9	that the show has broadcast, the weather is better than it is now, because it has been truly
1:08.5	terrible, although I had to go to an event
1:11.4	in Shropshire last night and stayed overnight, and it snowed, like, properly snowed to the
1:19.1	point where I had to walk out of the house, like, down a very, very long drive in order to even
1:24.7	get a taxi. And the vegetable truck that was making a delivery got stuck
1:30.1	on the way up. Oh my God. It's so country. Yeah. It's very country. And it was very exciting. It's just
1:36.8	there's nothing better than walking in the snow, I think. Yeah, really proper snow is amazing.
1:42.1	Whereas here we just had that horrible urban sleep that just means you don't want to be outside.
1:46.7	It's really cold.
1:47.8	It's also wet.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Literary Friction, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Literary Friction and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.