Minisode Forty-four: Parenthood

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Last year we made a minisode about mothers, and one about fathers, both of which began an ongoing conversation about parenthood and literature that we wanted to pick up this month. Is fiction a good form for exploring the experience of parenthood? And beyond the ubiquitous parenting manuals, what does non-fiction about parenthood have to offer? Adulthood lasts far longer than childhood, so what about books that look at parent-child relationships in later life? Tune in for this and more, plus all the usual recommendations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Carrie Plitt here with my co-host, Octavia Bright. How are you, Octavia?
0:23.2	I am a little grumpy today because of the weather. It will shock you to know. But I got caught in the
0:31.7	rain earlier and then I got caught out by messed up trains because the government is so crap and everyone's having to strike in order
0:38.8	to get paid decently. And so I'm just, I'm generally feeling very like grumble, grumble,
0:42.8	broken Britain today. I was feeling very broken Britain today because the post from the last two
0:49.0	weeks just arrived today. Oh my God. It just hasn't come. Oh my God. So, yeah, I really feel you on that.
0:55.6	And yeah, the weather's tough.
0:57.5	It's the darkening days are tough.
0:59.4	It's so tough, right?
1:00.6	And it just also makes me feel basically like I've become this kind of like grumpy old
1:05.6	person who just complains about infrastructure and like the looming darkness.
1:10.3	But I didn't see that for myself at 37.
1:13.7	I spent a really long time talking about train routes the other day with somebody. And I was
1:18.0	like, I'm actually enjoying this. I have to say, that's still a conversation that makes me want to
1:21.8	die. It makes me feel my life force ebbing out of me, like with every second that it goes on.
1:28.4	I mean, I obviously want to talk about other things.
1:31.1	I know, I know, I know.
1:33.9	Anyway, anyway, anyway.
1:35.8	Anyway.
1:36.6	To add?
1:37.9	Well, I will add this.
1:40.2	We decided we talked about the weather so much that it was finally time for us to do an episode
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