Lauren J. Joseph

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Lauren J. Joseph & Olivia Laing: Lean Cat, Savage Cat · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And each of those figures all had an older sibling who introduced them to the counterculture, Bowie, Nan Golden and Catherine Hepburn.

And each of those siblings died by suicide and left a huge impression on them.

Bowie wrote Jump, they say about his brother throwing himself off a building.

Katherine Hatburn has a kind of alter ego called Tom, who she would inhabit from time to time.

And likewise, in Lean Cat, Savage Cat, there's the shadow of a lost sibling.

And which, again, kind of connects with those three figures who cast their shadow in terms of their artwork and also in terms of the imprint they left on the culture in terms of their gender identity.

There's not a ton of rewriting.

With the certain points you touched, there was not.

I wrote that quite quickly.

That took three months, not three months consecutively, but I wrote it in three-month chunks.

I write by ear, so I find that something's working if it sounds right.

There's a bit like when you sing or when you hear somebody sing, you might not be able to say, ah, she's a semitone flat, but you know if it sounds good or correct.

So I write by ear mainly.

And I think that's the balance for me when you have such a series of references as both of these books do.

When you're talking about theology and old movies and comic books and drugs and parties and very private worlds and very public worlds, with a system of references like that, I think you need an almost conversational tone.

So the sentences are quite long and they do sort of change direction from time to time as a thought might.

There's a bit of maybe...

beckett in there if i may be so bold um and also alan bennett i would say and also you know like if you grew up in liverpool everyone talks like this it's always like well i wouldn't sheila she was on the bus now you remember sheila no you don't remember sheila you remember sheila and so she said to me anyway and you're sort of like there's a point to this and it does tie up quite neatly and so i'm kind of doing that i think trying to have a

a musicality and a conversational tone, which is capable of holding all of these references.

So style and tone is the crucial thing, I think.

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