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Literary Friction is a monthly conversation about books and ideas. Hosts Carrie and Octavia interview up-and-coming and established authors, and each show is built around a theme - anything...
So it turns out, we missed talking to each other about books, and we missed you! And thanks to some vital sponsorship from our friends at Fa...
It's time for our usual Year in Review show, but seeing as this is also our last EVER episode (sob!), we're shaking things up a little to br...
What does it mean, to pursue a life of your own? And what is art and literature's role in figuring out what that might look like? This month...
Our theme this month was suggested by our patron Maral, who asked us to do an episode about our friendship, because she’s interested in how...
How do the people and things we desire shape our identities? And how do you render the physical intensity of desire on the page? Author K Pa...
Last year we made a minisode about mothers, and one about fathers, both of which began an ongoing conversation about parenthood and literatu...
What is it about doppelgangers that's so endlessly compelling? Who better to answer this question than the one and only Naomi Klein, who joi...
Our theme this month was suggested by our patron Mary, who asked us to talk about so-called 'sad girl novels', and it turns out we have some...
What makes a brilliant short story? Are they better read as part of a collection or as a sharp shot on their own? How do you render fully fo...
We first aired this episode back in July 2019, and it was recorded in the studio when Ocean was on the international tour for his novel On E...
Are you a techno-optimist or a techno-pessimist? Or even a total Luddite? Does Chat GPT excite you or completely freak you out? Our theme th...
Dark humour - do you love it or hate it? Do you find it cathartic or macho? Can humour ever be too dark, and is it a useful political tool?...
Octavia has been away on her book tour, so today we’re bringing you a re-run of one of our earliest minisodes from April 2019. It was a fun...
From Pride and Prejudice to Detransition, Baby, the romcom can be an enduring source of great pleasure, fun and comfort. This month we’re th...
Today’s show is an author special, and in the hot seat is our very own Octavia Bright. You probably know by now that Octavia’s first book Th...
Do you like reading about writers? What does good writing about the act of writing do? And what happens when you write a real writer into a...
How do you feel about cities? Do you love the thrust and thrum of them, or are you more interested in escaping it? Do you like to read urban...
What's the relationship between feminist writing and feminist activism? What does it mean to be a feminist killjoy, and what can we learn fr...
Today our theme is… kinda judgy! Everyone says you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but we all know everyone does. So, this month we tho...
Dancing can be about escape, about pleasure, but it can also be about protest. It can be a powerful means of expression, but how does writin...
Our theme this month was inspired by a recent story in New York magazine about, as they described it, “How to text, tip, ghost, host, and ge...
When journalists write books, how do they balance the potentially tricky relationship between weaving a compelling narrative and sticking to...
Money makes the world go round: it's an inescapable presence in our lives, and yet in a lot of cultures it's still a pretty big conversation...
Portraits of real people abound in books. There are novels that use transcribed conversations, like Sheila Heti’s How Should A Person Be, or...
Our January theme is heavily influenced by this time of year. Because the winter months are full of different feast days and celebrations, a...
We're on our end of year break, but didn't want to leave you without some LF to keep you company while you cook up your leftovers and potter...
Somehow it's already our last Literary Friction of 2022, which means as usual it's time for our year in review show, packed full of recommen...
When it comes to fiction, why are people so obsessed with authenticity and so appalled by literary deception? Does it matter who tells a sto...
In this show we're getting to grips with graphic novels. What's the history of this kind of storytelling? What narrative possibilities does...
This month we’re delighted to welcome Gabrielle Zevin to Literary Friction. Gabrielle’s latest novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is...
For this minisode we’re doing something a little different - this episode is sponsored by publisher Picador, who this year have launched a n...
It's autumn in the UK and we're full of that back to school feeling - fresh pencils, new pens and notebooks - so what better time for a mini...
We're on our summer break, which means we can re-run this excellent conversation we had with the French-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani in 201...
When does fandom tip over into unhealthy obsession? What are the power dynamics of being someone's fan, and how do they get exploited? This...
For this month's minisode, we thought we'd give our listeners a preview of some of the bonus minisodes that we're creating for our patreon s...
This month we're bringing you an author special with Elif Batuman, who joined Carrie in cyberspace to talk about her hilarious and original...
Spring is finally really happening here in the UK: the roses are out, we’ve swapped our coats for jackets, we even had dinner together outsi...
This minisode is a sister to our last one about bookshops - this month, we're talking about libraries. We love libraries! Those other places...
Whether it’s a single action that reverberates around a community, or the rupture of a break-up, literature is filled with memorable instant...
The theme for this minisode was suggested by our patron Maria and it's a subject very close to our hearts: bookshops. We love bookshops - th...
We love a good satire here at LF, so we're thrilled this month to bring you a show dedicated to the form. Argentine writer and novelist Pola...
Our last minisode was about mothers, so in the name of equity (and riffing on Octavia’s statement that she’d rather be a dad) we’re extendin...
This month's show is about East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain. We spoke to journalist Helena Lee about East Side Voices, the antho...
In honour of the fact that a lot of our friends are suddenly becoming parents, this minisode is dedicated to mothers in literature. The figu...
It’s our last Literary Friction of 2021, so as usual it's time for our year in review show, packed full of recommendations just in time for...
Regular listeners will know that we love to get a little meta here on LF, and this month author Ruth Ozeki gave us the perfect excuse to ind...
In the wake of the COP26 summit in Glasgow we are thinking a lot about climate crisis and the role literature can play in galvanising people...
Social hierarchies and the metrics of status and success are a part of life accepted by some and rejected by others, but whatever your posit...
This minisode we are leaning even further into our autumnal and back to school-ish vibe to talk about The Campus Novel, a genre that include...
Can you have freedom without constraint? What role does it play in creativity, and can it be productive as well as limiting? This month our...