Olivia Laing on Passion and Heartbreak in the Golden Age of New Italian Cinema
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. On today's episode, internationally acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Lang discusses their new novel, The Silver Book. Lang is the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody, and the Sunday Times bestseller, The Garden Against Time.
Their first novel, Crudo, won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, and in 2018 they were awarded the Wyndon Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Lang's new book, The Silver Book, is at once a queer love story and a noirish thriller set in the dream factory of Italian cinema. Weaving a fictional account from the creation of Federico Fellini's flamboyant biopic Castanova and Pasolini's notoriously shocking Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom, Lang explores the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, and love and power. Let's join our host, Mitheli Rao now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared, I'm Mitha Lee Rao.
Our guest today is Olivia Lang. Welcome to Intelligence Square, Olivia. Hey, really nice to be here. Olivia, this is a book about the lives and dreams and dramas that go into making a film and about both the creative geniuses as well as the forgotten underlings whose life and labor go into these very big projects. In the book, many of the men are queer, and I say men because there are women in the story, but it's
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