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Year in Review 2025 (and mother of all catch-ups)

12/8/2025 • 104 min

So it turns out, we missed talking to each other about books, and we missed you! And thanks to some vital sponsorship from our friends at Faber Books, we are BACK, baby, for this extra long one-off Year in Review episode. This show is full of recommendations from the last year (or two), as well as a bit of a catch up. Since we last appeared in your feeds, we'v… Play episode

Literary Friction - Year (and Decade) in Review 2023
Literary Friction - A Life of One's Own with Xialou Guo
Minisode Forty-Five: Friendship
Literary Friction - Desire with K Patrick
Minisode Forty-four: Parenthood
Literary Friction - Doppelgangers with Naomi Klein
Minisode Forty-Three: Sad Girl Novels
Literary Friction - Short Stories with Arinze Ifeakandu
RE-RUN: Author Special with Ocean Vuong
Minisode Forty-Two: Artificial Intelligence
Literary Friction - Dark Comedy with Lorrie Moore
RE-RUN - Minisode Three: Red Flags
Literary Friction - Romantic Comedy with Curtis Sittenfeld
Minisode Forty: Author Special with Octavia Bright
Literary Friction - Writing about Writers with Tan Twan Eng
Minisode Thirty-nine: Cities
Literary Friction - Feminism with Sara Ahmed
Minisode Thirty-Eight: Book covers
Literary Friction - Dancing Time with Jacqueline Crooks
Minisode Thirty-Seven: Etiquette
Literary Friction - Journalism with Tania Branigan
Minisode Thirty-six: Money
Literary Friction - The Lives of Others with Kathryn Scanlan
Minisode Thirty-Five: Food and Feasting
Literary Friction - RE-RUN: Abstract Romanticism with Chris Kraus
Literary Friction - Year in Review 2022
Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li
Literary Friction - Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart
Literary Friction - Playing Games with Gabrielle Zevin
Rediscovery with Jamaica Kincaid and Stu Wilson (Picador Sponsored Episode)
Minisode Thirty-Three: Correspondence
Literary Friction - RE-RUN: a Spoonful of Sugar with Leïla Slimani
Fandom with Sheena Patel
Minisode Thirty-Two: A Short History of Literary Friction (Patreon Sneak P…
Literary Friction Special - Elif Batuman
Minisode Thirty-One: Parties
Minisode Thirty: Libraries
The Instant with Amy Liptrot
Minisode Twenty-Nine: Bookshops
Satire with Pola Oloixarac
Minisode Twenty-Eight: Fathers
East Side Voices with Helena Lee and Will Harris
Minisode Twenty-Seven: Mothers
Literary Friction - Year in Review 2021
Literary Friction - Books About Books with Ruth Ozeki
Minisode Twenty-six: Twilight Knowing
Literary Friction - Climbing the Ladder with Natasha Brown
Minisode Twenty-Five: The Campus Novel
Literary Friction - Constraint with Maggie Nelson

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