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Keepe Welcome to Literary Friction.

I'm Octavia Bright here with my co-host Carrie Plits.

Hi, Carrie.

Hi, Octavia.

For this minisode, we are doing something a little different.

It is sponsored by publisher Picador, who this year have launched a new list of contemporary classics called the Piccador Collection to coincide with their 50th anniversary year.

With the aim of bringing seminal titles to a new generation of readers, the Piccador Collection combines the gravitas of a modern classics list

with the eccentric boundary-pushing spirit of cult paperback publishing.

The first titles on the list by incredible writers, incredible writers,

including Brett Easton Ellis, Hanja Jarnia Yonagahara, Kormick McCarthy, Fias Nypole, Jamaica Kincaid,

Jackie Kaye, and Alan Hollinghurst are books that inspire devotion, each of which have spent

many years being eagerly pressed into people's hands. I have definitely pressed many of these

books into people's hands. Into my hands even. Yes, into your hands. It's true. To celebrate the collection,

we've got a really exciting show lined up. First, we're going to be interviewing the inimitable

Antiguan American writer Jamaica Kincaid, who has five books featured on this list. And then we're

going to talk to Stu Wilson, who's from the art department at Piccadour. The Piccadour collection

titles all have a

fresh new look designed by Katie Took and Stu will be telling us about the work that went into

designing the series, but also talk about the fascinating process of cover design more generally.

So if you've ever wondered what goes behind the covers by which you are not supposed to judge your

books, listen up and you'll find out. Yeah. And not only that, we're really excited. behind the covers by which you are not supposed to judge your books.

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