Olivia Laing

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938 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Aug

Olivia Laing’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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forgotten the first one.

No, The Lonely City was

That wasn't the first one.

Okay, come here.

I've been coming here for so long.

Yes.

I'm going to put my glasses on.

I'm so happy to be in the LRB doing this.

I've been doing loads of chairing in here and it's really nice to be like, I'm going to talk about my book tonight.

I think that was a really good introduction, Jack.

It is.

It's well done.

It is a love story that occurs within a complicated and violent world and...

those complications and that violence aren't visible from the beginning.

They become sort of increasingly impossible to ignore.

So it's a situation of layered illusions.

And it is also a book set in a world of people making films, so creating illusions.

So it feels like it's

Very multi-layered in that way.

I'm going to read a bit that I think I've actually never read this bit before.

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