Literary Friction - Social Media with Kiley Reid

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Has anyone written a great social media novel yet? Is Twitter destroying our ability to read novels in the first place? How worried should we be about bookstagrammers? Why are you listening to this podcast instead of reading a book? What even is the point of podcasting?? On this month’s show we’re asking these not at all panicked questions and talking about social media in literature. As usual, our theme has been inspired by our guest: Kiley Reid dropped by the studio to talk about her debut novel Such a Fun Age, a fun, sharp story about babysitting, racial politics, class and privilege. Listen in to hear our interview with Kiley, our thoughts about the theme of social media in literature, plus all the usual recommendations. Thankfully, we recorded with Kiley before Covid-19 travel restrictions came into play, and before the virus spread, so if you want an hour to escape into a time before reality got turned around then open your mind, ignore twitter - at least for the next hour - and focus all your attention on Literary Friction. Recommendations on the theme, Social Media: Octavia: NW by Zadie Smith https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303327/nw-by-zadie-smith/ Carrie: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/166486/super-sad-true-love-story-by-gary-shteyngart/9780812977868 General Recommendations: Octavia: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306731/the-water-dancer/9780241325254.html Kiley: Jillian by Halle Butler https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/halle-butler/jillian/9781474617581/ Carrie: In the Cut by Susanna Moore https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/susanna-moore/in-the-cut/9781474613606/ Buy a tote! https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/758247545/literary-friction-canvas-tote-bag?ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1 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. I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:23.5	Hi, Octavia.
0:24.7	Hi, Carrie.
0:25.3	How are you doing?
0:25.8	I'm good.
0:26.6	It's raining, but I'm okay.
0:28.0	Yeah, we're in a cool new recording space, which I'm digging.
0:32.4	Yeah, it's like a shipping container with wood chip on the walls, though the sound quality might be a bit different from what you're used to.
0:41.1	Bear with us. Today, we're going to be talking about social media and literature. Has anyone written a great social media novel yet?
0:48.7	Is Twitter destroying our ability to read novels in the first place? How worried should we be about books to grammars? Very worried.
0:56.3	Why are you even listening to this podcast instead of reading a book? What is even the point of
1:01.9	podcasting, Octavia? It's a moral panic. We'll be asking these not at all panic questions today.
1:07.6	And as usual, our theme has been inspired by our guest. We're incredibly excited about
1:11.8	the author we have with us today, Kylie Reid, whose debut novel, Such a Fun Age, is a marvelously
1:16.7	fun and sharp story about Mira, an African-American babysitter, and her entanglement with the white
1:22.3	family she sits for. Octavia, do you want to introduce Kylie? I do. Kylie Reid is a recent graduate of the Iowa
1:28.9	Writers Workshop where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She lives in Philadelphia,
1:33.7	Pennsylvania. Such a fun age is her first novel, and it is fucking brilliant. Yeah, we both loved it.
1:39.0	Yeah, yeah, we're really excited to talk to her. So today, you'll hear our interview with Kylie.
1:43.8	We'll talk more
1:44.3	generally about the theme of social media and literature. And finally, we will give our usual
1:48.4	book recommendations. So delete your account, at least for the next hour, and focus on literary
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