Minisode Thirty-six: Money

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Money makes the world go round: it's an inescapable presence in our lives, and yet in a lot of cultures it's still a pretty big conversational taboo. Here in the UK right now there’s a serious cost of living crisis after years of terrible Conservative rule, the newspapers are full of often extremely patronising articles about how to ‘tighten your belt’, and it feels like everyone is talking about money without necessarily really talking about money. Are all books to some extent about money? Does the novel offer a useful way into thinking and talking about it? And where does the myth of The Writer who can afford to live off their writing alone come into it? Listen in as we dig into this, plus all the usual recommendations. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright here with my extremely fabulous co-host, Ms. Gary Plitt, down the line from Oxford.
0:23.6	Hi, Carrie. How are you doing?
0:25.1	Hi, Octavia. I'm doing really well because I just had some very old dear friends who do not live in the country.
0:33.5	Come and visit me here in Oxford with their two and a half year old child.
0:38.6	And I had the best time.
0:40.6	I played games.
0:42.8	I made dinner for all of them.
0:45.4	It was refreshing.
0:47.3	And it reminded me that the things in life that are important are spending time with friends
0:53.0	and family and eating good food and nothing else.
0:56.8	Yes, those are the things. Those are the things. How about you? Well, I'm inspired. You're basically,
1:05.2	I'm not doing so well mainly because the other tab I have open on my computer right now,
1:10.1	apart from our show script, is the doomsday clock.
1:13.5	And I don't know why.
1:15.4	Why?
1:16.1	Just before we started recording,
1:18.3	I think lots of people were tweeting about it,
1:20.9	saying that the doomsday clock has now got the closest to midnight
1:24.0	it's ever been in the history of the doomsday clock or something.
1:26.6	And I clicked on it.
1:27.4	And just before we got on this call, was reading about it and it is let me tell you
1:32.6	one of the most depressing things you can find on the internet so um yeah please who are the people
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