Olivia Laing
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938 appearances
3 recordings
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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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And yet he naturally, difficult word to use, but his native mode seems to be this sort of digression, snatching of ideas, deep obsession and deep passion, jumping to something else.
But the book sort of performs that simultaneously in a way that I found very beguiling.
Because you're sort of demonstrating that you have, I don't know, come to terms with your own form of thinking.
If I want to mention... But also that's like the style mags that you were reading.
It's like, hey, he said this Fassbinder.
It's up to the reader to chase.
I'd really prefer people not to sue Brian tonight.
No, it wasn't that.
Because it shifts moods, because it involves, I think it's a sort of lightly told story that
contain something that in different hands could be a really tragic story.
But you choose to approach it with this mode that feels light in a non-superficial way.
That was how I felt about it.
Ambivalence is also a book about money, I began to realize.
Yeah.
There's a lot, I mean, we got that in that extract.
There's a lot in it about what an education costs in emotional terms, but also in very practical terms, fees, grants, do you buy a laptop or not?
And there's this amazing moment towards the end where Bee does a bit of accounting.
He has written part of his thesis at great personal cost.
It's 20,000 words and he realizes that for every word he has spent a pound.
Was it worth it?
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