While reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Levy">Deborah Levy</a>’s novel <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-man-who-saw-everything-9781632869845/">THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING</a> and her recent “working autobiography” <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-cost-of-living-9781635571912/">THE COST OF LIVING</a> I often found myself pausing and kind of sinking into a passage I’d just read. Going back and rereading it not because my attention had wandered nor exactly to unpack an idea but because I felt the need to experience it over again. To have it happen to me. Levy started her career writing plays that have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and broadcast by the BBC. She is the author of multiple novels, several of which have been Man Booker Prize finalists, the short story collection Black Vodka, and two of the aforementioned “working autobiographies”. The two books of hers I’ve read are packed with ideas, but like great theater, they treat ideas as verbs. They’re thought in action. In a sense they defy you to talk about them. But let's try to, anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

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222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing

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