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

Talk about that.

But more about the writing about it.

And the same is true, I mean, Charlie is deeply intoxicated a lot of the time.

So there's a sort of language for that kind of chaos, bodily chaos.

Really, you need to read The Faction and not this.

That's so interesting.

I don't think there's anything in the book that leads you to that reading.

That doesn't feel right about her.

You know, my mum's read it.

I read this for the first time at the same time that I read Charlie's Nova Scotia House and they both had this just being completely matter of fact, this is now I'm eating tomatoes, now I'm fucking.

And that sort of sense of ordinariness is really great.

But I was going to ask about style as well and there the word ordinary doesn't work at all because...

I feel like we're in a moment of very flat prose, things being written in very sort of muted ways, as if everything is kind of in this homogenised social media caption language.

Lauren is not writing in that language at all.

No.

It's kind of very rich, very febrile, very linguistically exotic, I suppose.

And I wanted to talk to you about style and...

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, feminised.

Who were you reading while you were writing it?

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