This month we’re delighted to welcome Gabrielle Zevin to Literary Friction. Gabrielle’s latest novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is an engrossing and moving story of a multi-decade creative partnership between two video game designers, so we thought it only appropriate to make our theme today ‘playing games’. Listen in as we explore how games function in books like The Queen’s Gambit or Mansfield Park, the allure of choose your own adventure novels and the unique art of a game.

Recommendations on the theme, Playing Games:

Octavia: The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Carrie: Roger Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace

General Recommendations:

Octavia: Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère

Gabrielle: Trust by Hernan Diaz

Carrie: Alison by Lizzie Stewart

Ezra Klein interview with C Thi Nguyen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-philosophy-of-games-that-is-really-a-philosophy-of-life/id1548604447?i=1000552204773

Find a list of all recommended books at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/october-2022-playing-games-with-gabrielle-zevin

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