Literary Friction - Minisode Eleven: We Heart EU...ropean Literature

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🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

However you feel about Brexit, there’s no denying that it’s going to change the relationship that people in the UK have with the European Union and the twenty-seven countries that make it up. But we are not here to dwell in the misery of all that! One of the most beautiful things about literature is that, unless things get fully fascistic, no political machine can restrict your movement in your imagination. This minisode is a bit of a celebration of the European literature and culture we’ve loved, the stuff we want to read, and the power of reading to create and maintain connections where politics has failed us. So it’s Brexit, but make it optimistic? Tote bags: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/758247545/literary-friction-canvas-tote-bag?ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1 Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Twitter & Instagram: @litfriction This episode is sponsored by Picador https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction.
0:14.9	I'm Octavia Bright here in the studio with my delightful co-host, the inimitable Carrie Plit,
0:20.1	who I love to flatter and make her feel
0:22.6	uncomfortable at the top of the show. Hi, Carrie. How are you? I'm feeling very flattered,
0:27.7	a little flushed with praise. Take it. Is that a way to say? No. Are you blushing? I am blushing.
0:35.0	Yeah. I don't know. I like to make you blush. No, I'm great. How are you?
0:38.5	I'm great. I'm actually still riding high off a really lovely thing that happened to me a couple of weeks ago. When I was out for dinner at a great restaurant in Borough Market in London called Floor. I'm going to give them a shout-out if you're ever down there, go. The food is divine. and at the end of the meal
0:51.1	the matre d gave me a complimentary creme brulee
0:54.0	and said it was to say thank you for making such a great podcast
0:57.1	and I felt so famous. And yeah, it was, I blushed. It was lovely, though. It was like a lovely, lovely experience. I'm worried it will go to my head and I'll become a monster you are becoming a monster also this is
1:11.9	clearly just a plea for more creme brulee of course it is if you see me around town and you want to
1:19.3	give me a creme brule if you want to shout on on our podcast all you need to do is give octavia desserts
1:23.8	and she'll talk about it for weeks i mean mean it's absolutely true. No, it's really
1:28.1	wonderful and I'm glad that happened to you. Not at all jealous. I was just jealous that you
1:31.0	weren't there. I would I would share my crumbrily with you. Had you been there? I dedicated it to you.
1:37.8	Thank you. That means a lot. Welcome to our show.
1:48.6	Whether you're new to the show, maybe you found us through the shoutout in the New York Times morning briefing, just a little throwout of an exciting thing that happened to us.
1:53.2	We're basically, we're starting the show with bragging today.
1:55.1	We're just barking.
1:55.4	Sorry, please bear with us.
1:57.3	Or if you're an old hand, welcome and thanks for listening.
2:00.4	The format for these minisodes
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