Literary Friction - Real Estate with Deborah Levy

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This month, our guest is the inimitable author Deborah Levy, whose latest book, Real Estate, is the third instalment in her acclaimed living autobiography trilogy. It's a book about a lot of things - being a writer, being a woman, how we make and remake a life, and what we ultimately leave behind. But it's also about real estate, which got us thinking about the importance of buildings, houses and homes in literature. How can books help us understand where and how we make our homes? Why is the haunted house such an enduring symbol? And how is the value of property different for 'generation rent'? So if you want to check out some hot property, join us for all this plus the usual recommendations. Recommendations on the theme, Real Estate: Octavia: In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Carrie: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters General Recommendations: Octavia: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Deborah: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Carrie: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas Find lists of all recommended books at: http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/litfriction, where you can order books online while supporting independent bookshops. Support us on Patreon: https://www.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.
0:17.5	I'm Carrie Blit here, as always, with my co-host Octavia Bright. Hello, Octavia. How are you?
0:24.7	Hi, Carrie. I'm good. I'm one magnum down today. Nice. Ice cream, not a bottle of wine, I should just say, for the record.
0:35.7	Yeah, the magnums are coming fast and hard these days for you,
0:38.7	aren't there? Yeah. Yeah. Again, let's clarify ice creams. No, it was great. It was a beautiful
0:47.7	thing to do on a sunny afternoon. How about you, my love? Similarly, well, not similarly,
0:53.0	because I didn't have ice cream, but I am just, I'm riding the
0:55.7	wave of this blissful weather right now and just praying it continues. And I have been swimming,
1:01.6	which is very exciting. I went last week as well. Isn't it just to get your body in a body of water?
1:07.6	It's like the best. Yeah, it feels really good i i do this thing where i run down to the river
1:14.0	and then i jump in and then i run back the most wholesome woman i know that's really great i love it
1:24.0	do you know what actually talking of wholesome i smoked a cigarette last night for the first time in ages and it was really great.
1:31.0	Ooh. So, because I tried to smoke a cigarette recently and it was disgusting. Well, you just weren't smoking the right cigarettes.
1:38.9	I need some menthols or something. I'm glad we're swimming and putting disgusting hemicals into our body.
1:47.1	Sorry, that was so judgmental. I'm really happy to smoke a cigarette. I don't take it
1:53.1	that way. It's all good, baby. Okay. Well, anyway, today we're very thrilled to feature
2:00.0	literary friction favorite Deborah Levy,
2:02.7	who came to talk to us about the third book in her acclaimed Living Memoir Trilogy,
2:08.0	which is called Real Estate.
2:10.1	This memoir is about a lot of things, like really a lot of things.
2:13.7	It contains multitudes, you might say.
2:16.2	It's about being a writer and a woman about how we
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