Literary Friction - Into The Woods With Luke Turner

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Are the woods a joyous escape from the morals and prying eyes of polite society, or a dark and forbidding place where no-one is safe? Or both? How is the forest in literature changing as the forests in our world disappear? This month we’re going into the woods, looking at literary forests from Shakespeare to Sondheim to Lovecraft and beyond. Our theme is inspired by our guest Luke Turner, editor of The Quietus, whose memoir Out of the Woods is a beautiful and frank examination of sexuality, love, religion, and London’s Epping Forest. We also have some news: next month we're launching our first ever minisode! So if you'd like more of us wanging on about books and maybe telling you some secrets, you are in luck. But for now, relax under a canopy of green and join us as we try to see the wood for the trees on Literary Friction.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Fiction on NTS. I'm Carrie Plitt here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:16.5	Hi, Octavia. Hi, Carrie. I'm excited for our journey on the show today. Me too. We are going into the woods. Are the woods a joyous escape from the morals and prying eyes of polite society where rules are turned topsy-turvy, or a dark and forbidding place where no one is safe? Or both. Yes, or both. And I think we might argue today that it ends up being both.
0:39.4	It's always the complex answer, isn't it?
0:41.2	Yeah, babe.
0:42.2	Plus, as usual, our theme is inspired by our author guest.
0:46.2	And today we'll be talking to Luke Turner, whose memoir, out of the woods is a beautiful and frank examination of sexuality, love, religion, and London's Epping Forest.
0:55.8	Octavia, do you want to tell our listeners a little more about Luke?
0:58.9	I absolutely do. Luke Tanner is a writer, editor and curator based in London. He co-founded and edits
1:03.9	the influential online music publication The Quieters and regularly writes on music, culture,
1:08.6	and place for a variety of magazines and websites and broadcasters.
1:12.2	Out of the Woods is his first book.
1:14.5	Thank you for doing that.
1:16.3	Always a pleasure.
1:17.0	Wonderful.
1:18.0	Very well said.
1:19.3	Very well said.
1:20.1	And also this month we have some announcements, don't we?
1:22.6	We absolutely do.
1:23.8	And we've got a really exciting one.
1:26.0	First up, we are about to start bringing you minisodes
1:29.0	um yay yay so we we decided that we we want to bring you a bit more content and we wish we could do
1:38.7	full shows but every couple of weeks but it's too much so we're going to release these little
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