This week we are thrilled to present an illuminating chat with one of our favourite all-time writers: Olivia Laing! Olivia is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her novel Crudo was a Sunday Times bestseller, a New York Times notable book, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths and Gordon Burn Prizes and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her latest book is Everybody: A Book About Freedom. We talked to her about Warhol’s wigs, Kathy Acker as a teenage totem, Jilly Cooper revelations and a Henry James slam courtesy of John Cheever.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Olivia Laing - Lonely City
Olivia Laing - Funny Weather
Olivia Laing - Crudo
Olivia Laing - Everybody
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Jilly Cooper - Imogen
Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
William Burroughs - The Cat Inside
Kathy Acker - Great Expectations
JD Salinger - Nine Stories
TH White - Once and Future King
Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
Derek Jarman - Modern Nature
Derek Jarman - Chroma
Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground
Olivia Laing - Trip to Echo Spring
Jessica Anya Blau - Mary Jane
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six
Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf
Andy Warhol - Diaries
Tina Brown - Diaries
Linda Rosenkrantz - Talk
Andy Warhol - A
Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair
Margery Allingham - Crime at Black Dudley
Len Deighton - Ipcress File
Len Deighton - Horse Under Water
Len Deighton - SS-GB
Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles
Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage
Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time
Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation To The Waltz
Rosamond Lehmann - Weather in the Streets
Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe
Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmations
Dodie Smith - Look Back With Love
Henrietta Moraes - Henrietta
Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room
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