Literary Friction

We have a very meta show for you this month: the theme is conversation, so we’ll be talking about writing about talking,... Read more

We're thrilled to bring you this podcast special: a recording of Octavia’s live interview with author Sally Rooney at Wa... Read more

It's September, the leaves are turning and Autumn has arrived, so in honour of this return to reality we bring you a sho... Read more

We are incredibly excited to be joined by American artist and writer Chris Kraus, here to discuss her novel I Love Dick.... Read more

Good friends are hard to beat, and this month's show is dedicated to those bonds that are often the deepest and most end... Read more

This month's show is called City of Voices in honour of our very esteemed guest, author Zadie Smith. We met Zadie for a ... Read more

Everyone needs to peace out from time to time, so this month we’re talking about the fictional trope of rest and relaxat... Read more

For our last show of the year, we’re going into therapy - or, more accurately, we’ll be talking about therapy’s intersec... Read more

For our last show before we take our summer break, we bring you this author special with poet and novelist Ocean Vuong, ... Read more

Baby, it's cold outside, so come and warm your cockles with us as we talk FUTURE SEX. Writer Emily Witt joined us all th... Read more

The short story is literature in a single shot, and the form has many masters, from Guy de Maupassant to Edgar Allan Poe... Read more

The body – especially the female body – has forever been an object of literary fascination and desire. But what about th... Read more

As the most famous nanny in the world once said, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but you won't need to s... Read more

From Virginia Woolf to Susan Sontag, writers have grappled with how difficult it is to both describe and understand the ... Read more

It’s our last minisode of 2019, so we're looking back over some of our favourite reads of the year, some of our resoluti... Read more

We’re very pleased to report that Minisode One went down really well so we're back with another one for your pleasure. L... Read more

Nothing grants insight into lived experience quite like a memoir, and the form is currently having a resurgence. This mo... Read more

From William Faulkner to John Updike, and Hilary Mantel to Margaret Atwood, why do authors return to the same characters... Read more

Ever wonder if you're with the flock, or against it? British author and psychiatric doctor Joanna Cannon’s debut novel T... Read more

From Ivanhoe to Wolf Hall to The Essex Serpent, what is it about the historical novel that is so compelling? This month,... Read more