The Instant with Amy Liptrot

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Whether it’s a single action that reverberates around a community, or the rupture of a break-up, literature is filled with memorable instants after which everything changes. Our guest this month is Amy Liptrot, who joined us from Orkney to talk about her second book The Instant, a memoir of Amy’s move from Scotland to Berlin, where she searches for racoons, tracks the moon, goes to techno clubs, looks for boyfriends, falls in love and has her heart broken. It’s also about connectivity and the instants that change our lives, and so in honour of Amy’s book our theme today is ‘the instant’ - we’ll be thinking about those moments in literature when things turn on a dime. Sit back, enjoy, and let us change the course of your life over the next hour on literary friction. Recommendations on the theme, The Instant: Octavia: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld Carrie: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene General Recommendations: Octavia: Body Work: the radical power of personal narrative by Melissa Febos Amy: Time on Rock: A Climber's Route Into The Mountains by Anna Fleming Carrie: Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl Find a list of all recommended books at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/april-2022-the-instant-with-amy-liptrot Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction This episode is sponsored by Picador: https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always, with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:25.4	Hi, Miss Octavia Bright.
0:27.4	How are you doing?
0:28.8	Excuse me, it's doctor.
0:30.8	Doctor, I'm sorry.
0:32.2	I just say that so that you can correct me at this point.
0:35.5	You set me up so well.
0:39.9	I am actually full of the joys of spring i'm just overjoyed to feel the warm air on my skin i went out without a jacket today it was
0:45.2	very exciting and i'm also finally almost back to normal post-covid which feels good i've been working
0:53.1	very hard on writing my book, which is scary and also
0:56.1	good. And yeah, I'm excited. I'm going to Athens for a week soon to do some reading and peace
1:01.6	out, which is very exciting. And just, I guess what I'm trying to say is I feel like a human
1:06.1	being who's just living their life, which actually, after everything of the last few years, just feels
1:11.8	extremely special. So I'm kind of cherishing it. But how about you? You sound bunged up.
1:16.6	Yeah, I am bunged up. I got over COVID. Then I went to the London Book Fair and went to a lot of
1:21.1	parties and mixed with a lot of people and got sick again. So I'm ill, but I regret nothing. I love parties. I love spring. The cherry
1:31.3	trees are in blossom right now. Life is good, even if I have a cough. So yeah, I'm not bad.
1:37.8	Super spreader events are worth it. If they're fine, that's not what I'm... We shouldn't be
1:43.4	endorsing that publicly, but yeah, I had a great time.
1:46.1	No regrets.
1:47.5	But on to the show.
1:49.4	Today we are thrilled to welcome the author Amy Liptrot, who is here to talk about her second
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