• Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of five works of non-fiction, To the River, The...
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  • Alone is a non-fiction book written by Olivia Laing. The book was first published by Picador in 2016 and, like Laing's previous works, it blends research...
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  • Crudo is a 2018 novel by Olivia Laing. The book, Laing's first novel, incorporates autobiographical elements and details from the life of American author...
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  • mostly positive reviews from critics. In a review for The Observer, Olivia Laing said the book's "lyrical power" was matched by its "absolute emotional...
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  • might be a sequel, which I fear is on the horizon." In The Observer, Olivia Laing wrote, "Over two decades, she has gained a reputation as an elegant anatomiser...
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    beauty pageant titleholder Olivia Judson (born 1970), British biologist Olivia Junkeer (born 1999), Australian actress Olivia Laing (born 1977), British writer...
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  • He appears as The Poet in her writing. In 2017, he married the writer Olivia Laing. He is the editor of Nemo's Almanac, according to The Guardian "the world's...
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  • Millhauser's, albeit with "more playful and more dramatic surrealism". Olivia Laing writing for The Observer compares the book to an "eminently intriguing...
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  • written for Literary Hub, VICE, and Hyperallergic. In a conversation with Olivia Laing in BOMB magazine Keckler describes the book as being composed largely...
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  • June 26, 2007. "Olivia Laing - Bomb Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-03-01. "Mysterious Unfixable Elements: Olivia Laing Interviewed by Alex...
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  • Dixon, like his creator, was no clown but a man of feeling after all." Olivia Laing, writing in The Guardian: "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of...
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  • would frequently inspire Edward to start his own. In The Lonely City Olivia Laing discusses Jo's career and how it floundered because Edward was "profoundly...
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  • clinically dissected, one wonders, or alive and in immense pain?" Writer Olivia Laing noted that "words jumped out at him, from the back of cereal boxes or...
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    Toby Green Pekka Hämäläinen Sabine Hossenfelder A.L. Kennedy Marek Kohn Olivia Laing Janna Levin Tim Lott Mahmood Mamdani Francis T. McAndrew George Musser...
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    Times bestseller list. The book received wide acclaim from critics, with Olivia Laing writing in The New York Times, "It’s hard to imagine a stronger, more...
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    on 18 April. Olivia Laing's book, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, was published in 2011; walking the length of the Ouse, Laing reflects upon...
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    2021. "In Conversation". March 12, 2021. Laing, Olivia (December 10, 2015). "A Year in Reading: Olivia Laing". The Millions. "Bestsellers List Sunday...
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  • The Impressionist Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), The Buddha of Suburbia Olivia Laing (born 1977) Charlotte Lamb (1937–2000), romances Charles Lambert (born...
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    Macfarlane and Clive Barker, who has referred to him as "a blazing original". Olivia Laing has said of him: "No one alive can write sentences as he can. He’s the...
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    essentially ephemeral" nature of her early works, becomes evident; Olivia Laing in the Guardian, discerns "a faint and beguiling pessimism about love's...
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  • Princess Margaret (Princess Margaret) Tanika Gupta, Lions and Tigers 2018 Olivia Laing, Crudo Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent...
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  • Turin: Einaudi. p. 459. Quoted in H. Lee, Virginia Woolf (1996) p. 752 Olivia Laing, To the River (2011) pp. 195-8 Vaticinium ex eventu (or post eventum)...
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    original on 26 May 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018. Laing, Olivia (7 July 2007). "Pip Pip: Olivia Laing finds Dickens taking root in a war-torn jungle in...
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    Kunzru 2014 Hanif Kureishi 2008 Kwame Kwei-Armah 2014 David Kynaston 2010 Olivia Laing 2019 Nick Laird 2013 John Lanchester 2002 Robin Lane Fox 1974 Lee Langley...
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    Lucas", The Sewanee Review, Volume 48 (1940), p. 222 Arlott, p. 188 Olivia Laing (2011). To the River. CSA Telltapes. pp. 239–40. ISBN 978-1847677921...
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    Acker's influences and artistic trajectory. In 2018, British writer Olivia Laing published Crudo, a novel which references Acker's works and life, and...
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    Brockes, review of Sarah The Observer (London, England), October 24, 2010, Olivia Laing, review of Sarah The Telegraph (London, England), October 22, 2010, Claudia...
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  • LaFortune, a two spirit activist, author, community organizer, and artist Olivia Laing, a British trans/nonbinary writer, novelist, and cultural critic R. B...
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    other non-fiction, but notable examples would include To The River by Olivia Laing which follows her walk along the River Ouse and The Old Ways by Robert...
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  • (1910–1984, Argentina, f/nf) Kojo Laing (1946–2017, Ghana, f/p) Olivia Laing (born 1977, England, nf/f) Sarah Laing (born 1973, N Zealand, f/ch) Feri...
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