Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Carrie Plitt here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright. Hi, Octavia. Hi, Carrie. How are you doing? We've been giggling. We've been really giggling. Yeah, but we're having a great time. And today's show is very glamorous, very exciting.

It's all about the silver screen.

We'll be talking about books that engage with cinema from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last

Tycoon to the criticism of Pauline Kell and the New Yorker.

As usual, our theme is inspired by our guest.

Today we are talking to the fabulous Danis Beota, whose latest novel, Innocence and Others, is about two female friends who are both filmmakers and the stress their relationship is put under when a new woman, jelly, comes into their life. Octavia, do you want to say a little bit more about Dana? I sure do. Dana Spiotr, Spiota, is an American author of four novels, Lightning Field, Eat the Document,

which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award, Stone Arabia, which was a National

Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a New York Times notable book of 2011, and this book,

Innocence and Others, which is just about to be published in paperback by Piccador.

Spiota was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2008 and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in 2009.

She won the 2008 to 9 Rome Prize and the 2017 John Uptych Award.

She lives in Syracuse with her daughter Agnes and teachers in the Syracuse University MFA program.

And having interviewed her, I now want to go and study there because she's so rad.

Yeah, she's really rad.

Just listening.

It's great.

So we will be interviewing Dana, discussing the theme of cinema more generally,

and then giving our usual book recommendations.

So sit back, relax, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the show.

I love it when you're cheesy.

Sorry, I just love it.

It's my favorite.

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