Literary Friction - Magical Realism with Leone Ross

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Everyone needs a little magic from time to time, and this episode is brimming with it. We spoke to Leone Ross about her sensuous, absorbing new novel, This One Sky Day, which is set in the fictional Carribean archipelago of Popisho, where everyone is born with a certain magical gift, or cors. It's a story about many things, but mainly of two lovers trying to find their way back to one another over the course of a single day while the world shifts around them. We spoke to Leone about the subversive potential of magical realism, it's political power, and why some people are still so snobby about it. So listen in for our interview with Leone, a more general discussion of the literature of magical realism, and finally our usual book recommendations, and let us whisk you away to a better place for an hour. Recommendations on the theme, Magical Realism: Octavia: Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/571/57141/fictions/9780141183848.html Carrie: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/572/57241/one-hundred-years-of-solitude/9780141184999.html General recommendations: Octavia: Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing https://www.olivialaing.com/everybody Leone: Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/niven-govinden/diary-of-a-film/9780349700724/?v2=true Carrie: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/7906/s/9780571364879-klara-and-the-sun/ Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/litfriction Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction This episode is sponsored by Picador https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction.
0:17.8	I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:22.2	Hello, Octavia. How are you?
0:25.3	Hi, Carrie. I'm okay. I'm still waiting for a lot of things, I feel like. I'm still waiting for my mom to come back from hospital.
0:34.4	And while she's there, I'm staying at her house, which has some lovely things about it.
0:39.5	It's got a really nice big garden and the added bonus of my cat, Lupo, who you know.
0:44.9	I do know Lupo very well. I love Lupo. He is great. He's being alternately adorable and
0:50.5	really thuggish, as is his want. So this morning he brought us a little bird, which was a bit intense.
0:59.5	But you know, you have to just say thank you.
1:03.4	But yes, I'm enjoying being in a different part of the city.
1:06.6	Although I have to say it's quite intense being here with the old grief
1:09.2	because I'm surrounded by all my dad's things, which is kind of wonderful and also incredibly intense.
1:15.4	So I would say I'm in a state of ambivalence, I think.
1:18.1	But I think I'm going to ride this ambivalent state for a little while longer.
1:23.4	How about you?
1:25.4	Yeah, ambivalence has a good word to describe this period.
1:28.0	It feels so we're recording this on the day that pubs and restaurants have opened up and also
1:34.2	bookshops.
1:35.0	Yay!
1:35.5	Go support your local bookshop.
1:37.2	But I don't know about you, but I have not made any plans to actually go to any of
1:41.8	these places.
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