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Year in Review 2025 (and mother of all catch-ups)
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Literary Friction - Year (and Decade) in Review 2023
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Literary Friction - A Life of One's Own with Xialou Guo
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Minisode Forty-Five: Friendship
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Literary Friction - Desire with K Patrick
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Minisode Forty-four: Parenthood
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Literary Friction - Doppelgangers with Naomi Klein
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Minisode Forty-Three: Sad Girl Novels
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Literary Friction - Short Stories with Arinze Ifeakandu
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RE-RUN: Author Special with Ocean Vuong
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Minisode Forty-Two: Artificial Intelligence
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Literary Friction - Dark Comedy with Lorrie Moore
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RE-RUN - Minisode Three: Red Flags
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Literary Friction - Romantic Comedy with Curtis Sittenfeld
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Minisode Forty: Author Special with Octavia Bright
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Literary Friction - Writing about Writers with Tan Twan Eng
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Minisode Thirty-nine: Cities
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Literary Friction - Feminism with Sara Ahmed
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Minisode Thirty-Eight: Book covers
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Literary Friction - Dancing Time with Jacqueline Crooks
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Minisode Thirty-Seven: Etiquette
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Literary Friction - Journalism with Tania Branigan
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Minisode Thirty-six: Money
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Literary Friction - The Lives of Others with Kathryn Scanlan
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Minisode Thirty-Five: Food and Feasting
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Literary Friction - RE-RUN: Abstract Romanticism with Chris Kraus
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Literary Friction - Year in Review 2022
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Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li
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Literary Friction - Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart
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Literary Friction - Playing Games with Gabrielle Zevin
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Rediscovery with Jamaica Kincaid and Stu Wilson (Picador Sponsored Episode)
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Minisode Thirty-Three: Correspondence
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Literary Friction - RE-RUN: a Spoonful of Sugar with Leïla Slimani
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Fandom with Sheena Patel
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Minisode Thirty-Two: A Short History of Literary Friction (Patreon Sneak Peek)
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Literary Friction Special - Elif Batuman
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Minisode Thirty-One: Parties
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Minisode Thirty: Libraries
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The Instant with Amy Liptrot
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Minisode Twenty-Nine: Bookshops
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Satire with Pola Oloixarac
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Minisode Twenty-Eight: Fathers
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East Side Voices with Helena Lee and Will Harris
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Minisode Twenty-Seven: Mothers
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Literary Friction - Year in Review 2021
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Literary Friction - Books About Books with Ruth Ozeki
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Minisode Twenty-six: Twilight Knowing
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Literary Friction - Climbing the Ladder with Natasha Brown
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Minisode Twenty-Five: The Campus Novel
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Literary Friction - Constraint with Maggie Nelson
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Minisode Twenty-Four: Back to School
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Literary Friction - Writing For Change With Shon Faye
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Literary Friction - RE-RUN: Memoir with Viv Albertine
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Minisode Twenty-Three: The Sea, the Sea!
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Literary Friction - Grandparents with Anuk Arudpragasam
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Minisode Twenty-Two: Pets
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Literary Friction - Real Estate with Deborah Levy
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Minisode Twenty-One: Book Criticism
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Literary Friction - Hard Crowds with Rachel Kushner
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Minisode Twenty: Books as Objects
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Literary Friction - Magical Realism with Leone Ross
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Literary Friction - Vulnerability with Katherine Angel
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Literary Friction - Inside Publishing with Hannah Westland from Serpent's Tail (Sponsored Episode)
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Literary Friction - Adaptation with Niven Govinden
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Literary Friction - Minisode Eighteen: Winter Reads
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Literary Friction Special - Raven Leilani
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Literary Friction - Year in Review 2020
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Literary Friction - The Political Essay with Otegha Uwagba
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Minisode Seventeen: Optimism
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Literary Friction - Complicated Love with Mary Gaitskill
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Literary Friction - Sisters with Daisy Johnson
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Minisode Sixteen: Audiobooks
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Literary Friction - The Joy of Words with Eley Williams
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Literary Friction - RE-RUN: Masculinity with Thomas Page McBee
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Minisode Fifteen: Joy
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Literary Friction - Luxury With Shola Von Reinhold
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Literary Friction - Behind Closed Doors With Carmen Maria Machado
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Literary Friction - RE-RUN: Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge and Kishani Widyaratna
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Minisode Fourteen: More Intimacy
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Literary Friction - Intimacy With Garth Greenwell
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Minisode Thirteen: Inside Our Minds
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Literary Friction - Obligatory Note Of Hope With Jenny Offill
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Minisode Twelve: Escapism In Quarantine
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Literary Friction - Social Media with Kiley Reid
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Literary Friction - Minisode Eleven: We Heart EU...ropean Literature
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Literary Friction - On the Run with Eimear McBride
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Minisode Ten: TS Eliot The Love Rat, And Other Tales
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Literary Friction - New Beginnings With An Yu
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Literary Friction - In Therapy With Ben Lerner
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Minisode Nine: Year In Review
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Literary Friction - Returning with Elizabeth Strout
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Literary Friction - Minisode Eight: Set Reading, Good Or Bad?
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Literary Friction - Live at Cheltenham Festival
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Literary Friction - City of Voices with Zadie Smith
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Literary Friction - Vanity with Deborah Levy
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Minisode Seven: Jia Tolentino and Emilie Pine
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RERUN Literary Friction - Down the Rabbit Hole with Kevin Barry
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Literary Friction Special - Ocean Vuong
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Minisode Six: The Joys and Perils of Re-reading
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Literary Friction - Pain with Sinéad Gleeson
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