Welcome to Literary Friction.

I'm Octavia Bright, here with my co-host Carrie Plit.

Hi, Carrie.

Hi, Octavia.

This feels really weird.

It feels very weird.

But I like it.

Yeah, we flipped reversed it.

We thought we'd try and

spice things up a little for this. Our first ever minisode. So I'm driving the bus, which is a very

frightening thought. I've got my seatbelt on, but feeling very confident. She's my best co-pilot.

So welcome to our regular listeners and anyone who's recently discovered us.

This is our first ever miniser, as I said. And we've wanted to bring you all more literary friction

for a while. In an ideal world, we'd put out twice the number of shows a year. But unfortunately,

with our other work commitments, we can't manage all of that reading. So Carrie, over to you.

Yeah. So we're getting this. We thought we would follow the

lead of some of our other favorite podcasts and put out a little minisode between full shows, where we'll

have a more informal chat about books and anything else that comes up and also recommend any other

cultural things that have filled us with joy with the usual musical

interludes chosen by Eddie. Yeah and I'm going to be driving very wobbly so please belt up.

And if you're really lucky, you might even get some more insights into Carrie's illustri sporting

career. Yes, which I apparently love to talk about. But basically the format that we're going with today and that we think we might continue on with,

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