Literary Friction - High Society with Patrick deWitt

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Who wants to be a millionaire? This month, darlings, we’re talking about all things hoity-toity, posh and expensive - our theme is High Society. Why are there so many rich people in fiction? Should they be anything other than the object of ridicule and scorn? Are the rich different? To help answer these questions, we talked to award-winning Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt. His fourth novel, French Exit, is the story of Frances, an upper-class widow and her adult son, Malcolm, who flee from New York to Paris when their money runs out. Accompanying them is their cat in whom the body of Frances' dead ex-husband resides, along with, eventually, a medium, a French private investigator and a lonely sycophant. If that sounds absurd and funny - it is! So grab your champagne coup and stay with us for the next hour on Literary Friction.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:09.3	Hello, Octavia. Hi, Carrie. How are you doing today? I'm very well, babe. How are you?
0:13.2	I'm very well. I'm adopting a high society voice.
0:17.4	Don't start. No, I mean, I don't really know what high society voice is.
0:22.6	I don't know.
0:23.6	I should also try.
0:24.6	Oh, thank you.
0:25.6	I should also try.
0:26.6	Well, you may be...
0:27.6	Careful now.
0:28.6	Am I treading on thin ground here?
0:32.6	Yes.
0:33.6	Yeah.
0:34.6	No, no.
0:35.6	Well, today, darling, the reason I'm talking about that is because the theme of our show today is high society.
0:43.0	We will be talking about all things hoity-toity, posh, and expensive.
0:47.1	Why are there so many rich people in fiction?
0:49.5	Should they be anything other than the object of ridicule and scorn?
0:53.1	Are the rich different from us? We'll attempt to
0:55.6	answer these questions in our discussion of the rich in literature, but first we're talking to the
1:00.5	Canadian novelist Patrick De Witt, whose fourth novel, French Exit, is the story of Francis, an upper-class
1:06.4	widow and her adult son Malcolm, who flee from New York to Paris when their money runs out.
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