Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright here with my co-host Carrie Plit. Hi Carrie, how you doing?

Hi, Octavia Bright. I'm doing well. Can you always refer to me by my full name, please? Yes, I usually do. Really? No. I don't know. I said that. I think if you're going to do it, you should address me by my full title. What's your full title? Dr. Octavia Bright. Oh, Dr. Octavia. I'm sorry, I forgot that. That's very embarrassing. I was like, are you like a viscount or something? Yeah, I'm also nobility. FYI. Anyway, welcome to Minnesota 6. Yes, and that's my cue for doing the welcome bit. Welcome to Minnesota six. You do it so much better than me. Go on.

I really don't. So as a reminder, the format for these minisodes between full shows is for the next half hour or so, we're going to have an informal conversation about something book related.

And today, our theme is rereading books, which I think will be fruitful and interesting.

And then we're going to

recommend some other cultural things that we've enjoyed lately with the usual musical interludes

chosen by Eddie. That's right. But before we get started, we've got a couple of exciting

announcements. Firstly, we're going to take a summer break this year. We need a little bit of a

piece out. So after this one minisode, we have one more

exciting author special, which will be bringing you in a couple of weeks with a wonderful poet

and author Ocean Vuong. And then we will be resting our voices till September and working on

building our website, putting together a great autumn program for you. But don't worry, we will be

rerunning some old shows from our

archives so you can enjoy hearing our younger selves fumbling with our old Sputnik mic and saying

um and are a lot more than we do now, probably. We still say I'm in our lot. That's the person who edits

the show. Fair point. But yeah, the sound will hopefully be better now. I think so. Yeah, that mic was pretty trashy. It was so trashy. Yeah. But we loved it. Very, very fun of it. It had a lot of personality. It did, and it, you know, it had the ability to move around, which is kind of cool. It was fun. Well, anyway, we have another announcement, which is that we are now open to working with a sponsor.

So we've been approached by some companies over the years, and it's never felt like quite the right fit.

But as we are growing, we want to be able to bring you more exciting content, more live events, just more literary friction.

That's right.

Yeah. So if you work for a company that's

looking to invest in the arts, then we would love to hear from you. Our email is lit friction at

gmail.com and we're also on Twitter and on Instagram at lit friction. Yeah, please do hit us up.

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