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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