Olivia Laing
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938 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Aug
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And with the book about Reich, I tried to really show how complex he is, that there were very unlikable aspects to his personality and very dodgy aspects to his work and his worldview, but also things that are useful, that are liberatory.
With Pasolini, you know, I love Pasolini.
I love his work.
There's not a lot I take issue with.
He was actually anti-abortion, but his argument was that he remembered being a foetus.
Okay, do your thing.
When Maloney came to power, she made a whole poster campaign being like, your idol, Pasolini, was anti-abortion.
It's like, not like you are, though.
Really different.
So he's complex, and I guess, you know, those are the people I'm really drawn to, people who don't fit easily into their times, but have unexplored potential still in their ideas.
That's a really good question that nobody's asked.
Well done.
Oh, no, I often use notebooks.
My first few books were like, they had travelogue elements, so I'd have these travel notebooks.
And then when I wrote The Garden Against Time, I had these garden diaries.
Quite often I'll have a notebook and then that kind of makes the spine of the book.
And then I'll write out from there.
And I think there's something for me about just getting off my computer with all of the other things it contains and just having this like secret world.
I can open it and there's nothing else in it.
There's no...
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