Literary Friction - Sisters with Daisy Johnson

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What is it about sisters? Loving, competitive, sometimes incredibly sinister... this month, we're thinking about sisterhood, and all those memorable sisters that fill the pages of literature with their rivalries and alliances, adoration and rebellion. From Little Women to My Sister the Serial Killer, we're getting into why this familial bond is so potent in storytelling. With the days drawing in and Halloween nearly upon us, we're also thinking about how sisters can be uncanny, and we couldn’t have a better author guest to help us explore the spookiness of the sisterly bond: Daisy Johnson, whose new novel, Sisters, is about two girls who are disturbingly close, and what happens when they move with their mother to a crumbling house on the seaside after they cause a terrible incident at their school. We dedicate this show to sisters everywhere - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Recommendations on the theme, Sisters: Octavia: Atonement by Ian McEwan http://www.ianmcewan.com/books/atonement.html Carrie: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle/9780141191454.html General Recommendations: Octavia: A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/a-mans-place Daisy: Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin https://oneworld-publications.com/little-eyes.html Carrie: The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781933372426/the-lost-daughter Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram:

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Carrie Clit, and as you probably know by now, I'm here in Oxford, together but apart from my co-host, Octavia Bright, who is meeting me
0:22.9	in cyberspace from Londontown. Hi, Octavia. How are you doing? Hi, Carrie. I'm good. I'm
0:30.9	psyched to be in level two. Two, even. Yeah, I'm all right. I'm annoyed. I was really looking forward to doing a bunch of stuff next week that I'm now not going to be able to do. But today I am going to go and do an air, very safe socially distance outside waving at my friend's new baby, which is exciting. I'm going to wrap up warm. It's a long walk. Yeah, I'm okay. I'm tired of it, but I'm okay. How about you?
0:57.9	Yeah. Well, we're not in tier two here, but I feel like we're just waiting for it to happen. And also, I have not been doing any fun things because I've just been through the digital Frankfurt Book Fair for work.
1:12.7	Hey.
1:13.3	Yes.
1:14.2	Which was both pretty exhausting, but surprisingly lovely in many ways.
1:18.7	It was such a comfort to see so many publishers from all over the world on Zoom and sort of
1:22.9	see their cats and their bookshelves and that we were all going through this all over the world.
1:28.2	It was immensely comforting in some ways. But I did, I missed the dinners. I missed the spontaneous
1:33.8	meetings. I miss not having to do a whole week of regular work alongside all of these meetings.
1:39.9	I even missed the schnitzel and the overpriced beers.
1:43.3	You should have made yourself the schnitzel and bought yourself a fancy beer.
1:48.2	I really should have done that, but I didn't.
1:51.4	So next time.
1:52.8	Next time.
1:53.3	Well, hopefully next time you'll be back in the big hall now.
1:56.7	Yeah, yeah, I really hope so.
1:58.1	But now I'm like trying to desperately do some social things before it's impossible.
2:03.8	So yeah, this week is your week. Do it. Inject it into your veins. Trust me.
2:09.5	Yeah, but it's so exhausting, isn't it? To do social things. I had dinner with friends the other night and I was like, by 10 o'clock, I was a zombie.
2:16.9	We had some friends over
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