TL/TH: Writers on the Intersections of Work, Time and Value

Too Little / Too Hard
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Welcome to Too Little / Too Hard, a podcast hosted by Livia Franchini and Lucy Mercer that interviews leading contemporary writers on the intersections of work, time and value in relation to creative practice and literature. The podcast accompanies the online publication TL / TH. We are grateful to our funders: the Royal Society of Literature and the Department of English at the University of Exeter. 

Episodes

  1. Sophie Corser and Amber Husain

    12/04/2023

    Sophie Corser and Amber Husain

    In this episode, Livia and Lucy are in conversation with guests Sophie Corser and Amber Husain about their articles published in TL/TH , as well as discussing further ideas of work, time and value in relation to literature and their writing practices. They talk about reading and work, illness narratives, academia and more. They also discuss extracts from Christine Smallwood’s novel The Life of the Mind and Lauryl Tucker’s Unexpected Pleasures, Parody, Queerness & Genre in 20th Century British Fiction.

    1h 6m
  2. Emily Berry and Will Harris

    10/03/2023

    Emily Berry and Will Harris

    In this episode, Livia and Lucy are in conversation with guests Emily Berry and Will Harris about their articles published in TL/TH, as well as discussing further ideas of work, time and value in relation to literature and their writing practices. They talk about poetry and therapy, prize culture, generative seeds and more. They also discuss poems by Nuar Alsadir, Stevie Smith and Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller.

    1h 10m
  3. Anthony Anaxagorou and Yara Rodrigues Fowler

    09/17/2023

    Anthony Anaxagorou and Yara Rodrigues Fowler

    In this episode, Lucy and Livia are in conversation with guests Anthony Anaxagorou and Yara Rodrigues Fowler about their articles published in TL/TH, as well as discussing further ideas of work, time and value in relation to literature and their writing practices. They talk about unions and organising, instagram poetry, market pressures on anglophone novels, and making collective spaces.

    1h 1m
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Welcome to Too Little / Too Hard, a podcast hosted by Livia Franchini and Lucy Mercer that interviews leading contemporary writers on the intersections of work, time and value in relation to creative practice and literature. The podcast accompanies the online publication TL / TH. We are grateful to our funders: the Royal Society of Literature and the Department of English at the University of Exeter. 

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