Lauren J. Joseph

speaker

572 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

Lauren J. Joseph’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

Charlie is in some way paired with Alex.

They're sometimes mistaken for each other because they're about the same height, the same colourings.

Charlie has a roommate and her best friend Polly has a roommate and they both behave in similarly annoying ways.

There are two elderly German gentlemen called Gerhard and Hubert who are constantly confused and they joke, they live in the same building, they're the same age, they're both German, and they joke that the only way to tell them apart is by the square meterage of their apartments.

So...

It is this kind of labyrinth of doubles and mirrors in the way that if you spend a lot of time at parties, you kind of think you recognize people or remember people and maybe you don't.

So it is a very foggy, labyrinthine kind of book.

that's very invested in the flip side.

And as you say about telling two stories simultaneously, this is written in two voices.

There's the section, the star that I read to you then, which was looking back.

And then there's also like a continuous present voice of the narrator trying to piece what has happened to her together.

And you're right in terms of the cinematic influences.

I think the influences that were at the foreground of my mind were cinema references rather than literary references.

Yes, it is very much influenced by the aesthetics of a Fassbender movie too.

Also things like Chinatown, the Polanski movie.

Those movies that are, especially if we're talking about Fassbinder or Chinatown, movies that are made in the 70s but were set in the 30s or 40s like Veronica Voss.

I love that kind of 70s does 30s because there's again a kind of doubling, especially when you watch it now.

It does not look like the 30s.

It's quite clearly the 70s.

Everyone's got a Farrah Fawcett blow-dry.

Showing 141–160 of 572 · page 8 of 29