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.BOOKSDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableOlivia Laing - Lonely CityOlivia Laing - Funny WeatherOlivia Laing - CrudoOlivia Laing - EverybodyCharles Dickens - Bleak HouseGeorge Eliot - MiddlemarchJilly Cooper - ImogenJilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands JealousJane Austen - PersuasionJane Austen - Pride and PrejudiceCharlotte Bronte - Jane EyreWilliam Burroughs - The Cat InsideKathy Acker - Great ExpectationsJD Salinger - Nine StoriesTH White - Once and Future KingSiri Hustvedt - What I LovedDerek Jarman - Modern NatureDerek Jarman - ChromaPatricia Highsmith - Talented Mr RipleyPatricia Highsmith - Ripley Under GroundOlivia Laing - Trip to Echo SpringJessica Anya Blau - Mary JaneTaylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the SixHermione Lee - Virginia WoolfAndy Warhol - DiariesTina Brown - DiariesLinda Rosenkrantz - TalkAndy Warhol - AJosephine Tey - Franchise AffairMargery Allingham - Crime at Black DudleyLen Deighton - Ipcress FileLen Deighton - Horse Under WaterLen Deighton - SS-GBChristopher Isherwood - Goodbye to BerlinElizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet ChroniclesDenton Welch - Maiden VoyageAnthony Powell - Dance To The Music of TimeRosamond Lehmann - Invitation To The WaltzRosamond Lehmann - Weather in the StreetsDodie Smith - I Capture the CastleLucy M. Boston - Green KnoweDodie Smith - 101 DalmationsDodie Smith - Look Back With LoveHenrietta Moraes - HenriettaDarren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.