Olivia Laing

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

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Olivia Laing & Jack Parlett: The Silver Book · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

I'd worked with and spent time with Donati's friends.

So I felt like there was a lot of investment of really trying to, you know, get that right because otherwise...

people would be very vocal about it being wrong.

So, you know, it was always sort of touch wood and let's see.

I guess in the simplest way possible, the fact that you're asking the question means that you're still alert to the possibility that it is happening, that it doesn't have to happen.

I think the danger really comes when you're not thinking about it at all, when you're just completely confident that the position you've taken is the right position.

So I think it's something about staying in that sort of checking yourself, questioning yourself, observing yourself, talking to other people, that feeling.

And also remembering that

our times move us so there are moments where you've realized that you're thinking things you wouldn't you would have thought impossible a year before five years before i think that's something that's really happening at the moment

And that requires moral work, but also intellectual work to observe, to keep thinking.

And I guess that's part of why I'm so obsessed with this historical project of trying to record things.

Because when I was first writing Crudo, I knew that things were changing very rapidly.

People's language was changing rapidly.

People were saying things that they wouldn't have said before.

People were thinking things they hadn't thought before.

And I really wanted to just try and catch those moments so that we could remember.

Rather than being kind of caught up in like, this is the new world.

This is how it's always been.

Do you want to add, Jack?

think, as well.

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