Join co-hosts Annie Liontas and Lito Velázquez in conversation with LitFriends Lucy Corin & Deb Olin Unferth about their travels in the Sahara, ancient chickens, disappointments, true love, and why great books are so necessary.
Our next episode will feature Melissa Febos & Donika Kelly, out December 22, 2023.
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Annie Lito (00:00.118)
Welcome to Lit Friends!
Hey Lit Friends!
Lito:
Welcome to the show.
Annie:
Today we're speaking with Lucy Corin and Deb Olin Unferth, great writers, thinkers, and LitFriend besties.
Lito:
About chickens, the Sahara, and bad reviews.
Annie:
So grab your bestie
Annie & Lito:
And get ready to get lit!
Lito:
You know those like stones that you can get when you're on like a trip to like Tennessee somewhere or something, they're like worry stones? Like people used to like worry them with their thumb or something whenever they had a problem and it would like supposedly calm you down. Well, it's not quite the same thing, but I love how Deb describes her and Lucy's relationship is like, “worry a problem with me.” Like let's, let's cut this gem from all the angles and really like rub it down to its essential context and meaning and understanding. And I think essentially that's what like writers, great writers, offer the world. They've worked through a problem and they have answers. There's not one answer, there's not a resolution to it, but the answers that lead to better, more better questions.
Annie:
Yeah, and there's something so special about them because they're, worry tends to be something we do in isolation, almost kind of worrying ourselves into the ground.
Lito:
Right.
Annie:
But they're doing it together in collaboration.
Lito:
It's a collaborative worry. Yes, I love that.
Annie:
A less lonely worrying.
Lito:
It's a less lonely place to think through these things. And the intimacy between them is so special. The way I think they just weave in and out of their lives with each other, even though they're far away from each other.
I think there's a romantic notion that you're tuned into about Lucy and Deb's trip to the desert. Do you want to say
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