Minisode Thirty-One: Parties

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Spring is finally really happening here in the UK: the roses are out, we’ve swapped our coats for jackets, we even had dinner together outside the other night and watching the city come to life made us think about parties. Remember them? Parties! Outfits! Strangers in close proximity! The agony and the ecstasy of all that might happen... So, listen in for an ode to parties good, bad, imaginary and literary, plus all the usual recommendations. PLUS, your last chance to get your hands on one of our excellent tote bags, here: https://literaryfriction.myshopify.com/collections/all Patrons get an extra 20% off and you can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright here with you, and it's a beautiful sunny morning.
0:19.7	Hi, Carrie. How are you doing? Hi, Telia. I'm doing well.
0:23.8	I love you so much but I kind of wish I was outside. Me too. Me too. I actually was thinking
0:31.1	this morning like I used to do this with my students when I was teaching in universities. I used
0:35.9	in the summer I'd be like we're going to do our seminars outside.
0:39.0	And it got me so much kudos, which was great.
0:41.9	But also it was better for me.
0:43.0	It's so nice.
0:43.8	But we can't record outside because there's too many noises.
0:46.8	No.
0:47.6	Yeah, it wouldn't work.
0:48.7	There would be lots of blowing on the microphone too.
0:50.8	So much blowing.
0:51.6	And also, my neighbors are having quite a rowdy breakfast
0:54.4	and their garden next door. Yeah, but it was nice to see you in person. Oh, yeah. We went to an event
1:02.5	together in Clark & Well and then we went up for dinner afterwards and it was a warm evening and we
1:08.0	sat outside and I just felt like ladies in the city. It was lovely. It was a real ladies in the city moment. We got chatted out by a couple of drunk men, which was a shame, but apart from that. Yeah, that was a shame. Although it was like, I couldn't tell at first whether they were chatting us up. Yeah. And then he admitted that he was chatting us up at the end. I know. It was strange move, but anyway. It was such a strange move and yeah, wrong.
1:31.1	He really, And then he admitted that he was chatting us up at the end. I know. It was strange move, but anyway.
1:28.2	It was such a strange move. And, yeah, wrong. He really did not read the vibe, I would say. No. They never do, though, do they? No, they never do idiots. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm actually really busy with work at the moment, which is nice. as all freelancers know it feels good but it's also pretty intense and not least actually because I'm actually really busy with work at the moment, which is nice. As all freelancers know, it feels good, but it's also pretty intense. And not least actually because I'm delivering
1:48.4	my manuscript to my publisher at the end of July. So I'm kind of cranking up into serious
1:55.3	head-down delivery mode, which is very exciting, but also absolutely terrifying. And, you know,
2:02.4	the thing with deadlines, you kind of hate them mostly but then sometimes love them because like when you're at the right stage
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