Literary Friction - Rediscovery with Nell Dunn & Jennifer Hodgson

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This show is dedicated to rediscovered literature - all the neglected gems that have been reintroduced to the world by passionate publishers, writers and readers. Joining us are two wonderful guests: first, playwright and writer Nell Dunn, whose 1965 book Talking to Women is a collection of edited transcripts of conversations with nine of her female friends. Out of print until now, feminist publisher Silver Press are reviving it this May. In the book, Nell speaks to author Ann Quin, the late, little-known British writer whose work has recently been thrust back into public attention, largely because indie publisher And Other Stories have released The Unmapped Country, a new collection of her stories and fragments. The book’s editor, writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson, joins us for the second segment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Larry Frickin.
0:08.4	I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:11.8	Hello, Octavia.
0:12.6	Hi, Carrie.
0:13.3	For our podcast today, we've trekked through the snow.
0:16.2	We have.
0:16.6	To be with you.
0:17.3	It's been epic.
0:18.2	Yeah, it hasn't been that epic, actually.
0:20.1	No, I should say it carries very, very bored by the snow. I'm completely unimpressed. I'm from New England, baby. Although I'm told I shouldn't say that to British people because it's annoying to them. So I'll keep mum. But we do have a very special edition of our podcast today. we are talking about rediscovered literature, all the
0:39.3	neglected gems that have been reintroduced to the world by passionate publishers, writers,
0:43.2	and readers, from Alone in Berlin by Hans Falada to Stoner by John Williams to Emanuel for
0:48.6	Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin. And we have two wonderful guests for you today. Octavia, do you want
0:54.0	to introduce them?
0:54.9	Absolutely.
0:56.0	Our first guest is Nell Dunn, whose book Talking to Women
0:59.1	was a collection of edited transcripts of conversations
1:01.6	with nine of her female friends,
1:03.4	which was first published in 1965.
1:05.9	Out of print until now,
1:07.2	it's about to be republished by the wonderful feminist publisher,
1:10.4	Silver Press in the UK in May.
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