Episode 85: The Cost of Living | Dissolve

Published: Oct. 16, 2021, 5 a.m.

b"On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond have a mercifully brief and borderline hysterical conversation on the state of COVID before jumping a discussion of this month's books: The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy [3:45] and Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell [29:50].\\n\\nIf you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 58:15 for final remarks, including a minor rant on the subject of book annotations/defacement.\\nNext month, the two books up on the slab will be:\\n\\nLittle Eve by Catriona Ward\\n\\n\\n\\nLight Perpetual by Francis Spufford\\n\\n\\nRead ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!"