Literary Friction - Year in Review 2020

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It’s our last Literary Friction of 2020, and as usual it's time for our year in review show, packed full of recommendations just in time for your holiday shopping. We'll be looking back over some of the books that got us through this wildly challenging year, and gently revisiting the reading resolutions we made in 2019, when we were still so innocent and full of optimism. We'll also give some resolutions for the year ahead, plus some of the books we are excited to read in 2021. We've teamed up with two of our favourite independent bookshops to offer some ace deals for LF listeners: Burley Fisher (https://burleyfisherbooks.com/) are offering 10% off using the code LITFRICTION at checkout, available until midnight on 23/12. If you spend over £20 at Pages of Hackney (https://pagesofhackney.co.uk/) they'll throw in one of their brilliant totes for free, just add the tote plus books to your basket and use the code LITFRICTION at checkout. They've also put together a list of everything we recommended on this show, here: https://pagesofhackney.co.uk/litfriction/ Top picks from 2020: Carrie: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer Euphoria by Lily King Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo In The Woods by Tana French Octavia: Weather by Jenny Offill In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Blueberries by Ellena Savage This Brutal House by Niven Govinden Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux, trans. Tanya Leslie Unknown Language by Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey Looking forward to next year: Carrie: Open Water by Caleb Azuman Nelson Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler Having and Being Had by Eula Biss Octavia: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu This One Sky Day by Leone Ross Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Carrie Plitt here through the power of the internet with my co-host
0:14.8	Octavia Bright. Hi, Octavia. How are you doing? I am excited about the vaccine.
0:22.6	And I've been singing it in my head to the tune of lots of different songs, mainly Jolene.
0:28.4	So I'm feeling optimistic today. It's great. It's good.
0:31.7	I'm recording. I'm up at my mum's house where I'm staying for the moment.
0:35.6	So I'm in a bigger room than normal and I might be
0:38.2	a bit echoy. But apart from that, we should be good to go. How about you? How are you?
0:44.2	I'm okay. I'm, you know, I'm kind of excited about the vaccine, but it still doesn't feel real to me.
0:51.2	I am really feeling like I need a break right now, but trying to inject some holiday
0:56.6	cheer into this month, we are getting a Christmas tree this weekend. I'm already mainlining
1:02.0	Hanukkah Gelt. Excellent. It was also really funny to listen to this same show last year
1:07.7	when I was preparing for it because we were so, for lack of a better word,
1:12.7	happy.
1:13.6	We were just really happy and peppy.
1:17.5	It was almost kind of adorable, our sweet little innocent selves, just yammering on about
1:24.2	Christmas and Uncle Joe that doesn't want your Bill Bryson book or he does want
1:29.5	your Bill Bryson book but not your esoteric poetry. Oh, Uncle Joe, I wonder how he fed this year.
1:36.2	Yeah.
1:37.1	He would have just sat there feeding himself pages of Bill Bryson.
1:39.9	Well, he'll get some esoteric poetry in the post, I'm sure. But I basically want to channel some of that
1:46.1	energy today because it was just nice to listen to us, be so happy. And this is one of our
1:52.6	favorite shows of the year, isn't it? Yeah, it totally is. This is our last literary friction of
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