Minisode Thirty-Eight: Book covers

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today our theme is… kinda judgy! Everyone says you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but we all know everyone does. So, this month we thought we'd get into it - we partly covered (lol) this topic in our Rediscovery episode for Picador with Jamaica Kincaid and cover designer Stu Wilson, but we wanted to come back to it because there was so much more to say. What makes a book cover good or bad? Have you ever been totally put off reading a book by its cover? What are your major turn-offs, and what about any enduring faves? Listen in for all this and more, plus the usual cultural recommendations. Also, very excitingly, O's memoir This Ragged Grace has been selected as the Bookshop.org book of the month for June! So, if you'd like to read it, they're offering all wonderful Literary Friction listeners free shipping and 10% off if you pre-order it from them at the following link, using the code Ragged10: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/this-ragged-grace-a-memoir-of-recovery-and-renewal-octavia-bright/7400323?ean=9781838857462

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction.
0:26.3	I'm Octavia Bright here with my beloved Carrie Plitt, ready to talk to you about some exciting things.
0:32.7	But first, Carrie, hi, how you doing?
0:36.3	Hi, Octavia.
0:37.2	I'm doing pretty well.
0:38.0	My parents are visiting right now.
0:39.6	Hey.
0:41.1	The flits are in town.
0:42.9	Yes, I set them out for a coffee while we record.
0:45.7	And we're, yeah, they're staying with me in my home, which is a new experience.
0:51.5	And I'm really enjoying their company.
0:55.5	So that's how I am.
1:02.5	How are you? Well, today we are recording on the spring solstice. So I am basically beside myself with excitement that this means we are moving into the light ever more every day. Also, there are some
1:09.0	extremely energetic men hanging from trees outside my window
1:12.1	with chainsaws doing some tree surgeries. So if any weird sounds picked up on the microphone,
1:17.6	that's why. And I'm sorry, everyone. It's a very like anti-spring activity, just chopping things down.
1:23.5	Yeah, hugely aggressive, but that's how you have to be. For letting them grow again, you know.
1:29.0	Exactly. That's it. You cut right back and then a new world emerges, supposedly.
1:34.9	Yeah. Anyway, lots of activity around here.
1:38.9	Okay. Well, before we get into our theme today, let's get business out of the way.
1:43.9	If you like, you can support us on
1:45.3	patreon by subscribing at patreon.com slash lit friction you will also get access to an extra minisote each month
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