Literary Friction - Minisode Three: Red Flags

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The writer Laura Relyea recently tweeted the question ‘What books are automatic red flags for you with people?’ and it got over 12,000 likes and 4,100 responses. We thought we'd stick our oars in as well, so join us for Minisode Three, in which we get into red flags, literary snobbery, books as cultural capital, and whether it's ever ok to judge a person by their reading habits.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction, Minnesota 3.
0:13.1	I'm Octavia Bright here with my co-host Carrie Plitt.
0:16.1	Hi, Carrie.
0:17.3	Hi, Octavia.
0:18.2	How you doing?
0:19.9	I'm doing fine. Sorry, I never know what to say to that question.
0:24.7	Yeah, I guess it can put you on the spot. I mean, just tell the truth, honey. Do people want to know the
0:29.5	truth? Yeah. Well, I definitely want to know the truth. Do our listeners want to know the truth?
0:33.6	I mean, we'd have to ask them. Do you want to ask them? Maybe we don't want to know about that. No, I want to know that truth. Tell me how you are. Well, I'm actually great. Okay. I mean, that's very simple. I'm happy to be here with you. How are you? Yeah, I'm good. I'm a bit hungry, a little warm, but I'm ready.
1:12.7	Yeah, it's quite hot in the studio today, isn't it? Yeah, it is. And smells a little bit weird as we were talking about before. It definitely smells strange, but I'm pleased to say that we've got two Himalayan crystal lights that are helping to purify the atmosphere, and that's making things a little easier. Yes, it is. Anyway, so now you know how we are sort of physically located.
1:11.2	Welcome to Minnesota 3, where Carrie and I rang on about books
1:17.1	and have opinions about things. Which makes it sound really thrilling, doesn't it? But I think it is,
1:22.0	damn. Well, we've had good response from our listeners. So we continue to do the minisodes. And as we've done on the other
1:30.0	two minisodes, today we are going to, for the next half an hour or so, first of all, answer a
1:35.6	question about books. And then second of all, give you some recommendations for other cultural
1:41.2	things that have filled us with joy. And there will be the usual musical
1:45.7	interludes. That sounds like a tongue twister. Yeah. Usual musical interludes chosen by Eddie.
1:51.9	Yeah. And our topic this time is inspired by a question that was going around on Twitter this week.
1:56.7	Writer Laura Raleigh tweeted the question, What books are automatic red flags for you with people?
2:01.9	I'll start.
2:02.6	I once called off a date when a dude told me his favorite book was Lolita.
2:06.7	This little tiny question got over 12,000 likes and 4.1,000 responses,
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