Deborah Levy
South African novelist and playwrightWikipedia
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Sep 10, 2026
Sara PascoeHOST
Um, but here's mine.
Sara PascoeHOST
Switzy, Natural Disasters, The Fix, Whistler, Love's Labour, and the Deborah Levy book you bought for my birthday.
Cariad LloydHOST
Okay, that's an incredible amount to read this summer.
Cariad LloydHOST
I mean-
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Sara PascoeHOST
Yeah.
Cariad LloydHOST
What's next on your list?
Sara PascoeHOST
Um, so the Deborah Levy is a novel.
Sara PascoeHOST
It's, um, Paris with Gertrude.
Delphine SeddonGUEST
I did a week's writing course about the psychological profile of characters at Faber and Faber.
Delphine SeddonGUEST
And I remember we had like a guest speaker, Deborah Levy, who was just, you know, I love Deborah Levy.
Delphine SeddonGUEST
And she sat at the front and she said, right, I'm going to go around the room and I want you to tell me what your main character is called and what motivates them.
Delphine SeddonGUEST
And I was like, oh God, I don't know.
Katie ClaphamGUEST
... mess with it, and I, I love that.
Katie ClaphamGUEST
You know, I've, I've just been reading, um, Deborah Levy's book, um, A Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, and I, uh-
Elizabeth LyonsHOST
Oh
Katie ClaphamGUEST
...
Rachel Eliza GriffithsGUEST
So I've been thinking about her a lot, but I keep a kind of village of different women whose, um, their sharp wit and knowing and vulnerability really speaks to me.
Rachel Eliza GriffithsGUEST
I'm a huge, uh, Deborah Levy fan, so she's another.
Rachel Eliza GriffithsGUEST
I wouldn't call her old, though.
Rachel Eliza GriffithsGUEST
I think she's just getting started, to be honest.
Carol LefebvreGUEST
But there was this big irrational part of me that was denying this.
Carol LefebvreGUEST
I remember I was reading Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living on the plane, coming back this time last year from Sydney, and she writes in there about losing her mother.
Carol LefebvreGUEST
And she said, I knew she'd died, but I still expected her to be there.
Carol LefebvreGUEST
And I just, I couldn't believe it.
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Carol LefebvreGUEST
When you get to 75 you've got a lot of past.
Carol LefebvreGUEST
And that can be quite draining, you know, if there's stuff in the past that's pulling at you or unresolved or whatever.
Carol LefebvreGUEST
Deborah Levy, I'm quite fond of, especially her living autobiographies and The Cost of Living, she says, ''You either die of the past or you become an artist.'' And I feel that at this age, you become an artist of your old age.
Carol LefebvreGUEST
You become an artist of your own life.
Kimberly FordHOST
Even if this were not set in kind of a fictive f- like Paris, even if I didn't know that Rachel Cusk lives in Paris, I actually didn't know that Natalie Portman did until we got a little ways into this whole thing, but even if it were not in Paris, the idea of someone writing someone else's autobiography definitely would have reminded me of Gertrude Stein.
Kimberly FordHOST
Very recently, Deborah Levy wrote the most incredible book.
Kimberly FordHOST
It's called My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, and a lot of it is about the difficulty of, of Stein's prose.
Kimberly FordHOST
And the most accessible, and I think the most successful thing that, that, that Gertrude Stein wrote very famously is the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
LauraHOST
This is great news.
LauraHOST
So I read The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy.
LauraHOST
It was one I picked up on a recent op shop bender and I found The Cost of Living and then I got another one that has a blue cover.
LauraHOST
And I mean, I'll be real, I bought them for the cover alone thinking, well, it's two bucks, like, who knows? And so this was kind of like a fragmented memoir following the years after the end of her long-term marriage.
LauraHOST
And then she also talks about this shed that she moves into that It was also just a real vibe as well.
LauraHOST
Like, I love so much any sort of character that provides me with something niche and really specific to aspire towards.
LauraHOST
So in this book, apparently Deborah Levy is, like, well-known in some circles for always constantly wearing a string of pearls around her neck.
LauraHOST
She's a classy lady.
Joseph DanceHOST
So I asked, can you please recommend me some books based on the following? So I had three kind of points.
Joseph DanceHOST
I like authors such as Angela Carter, Deborah Levy, Ann Patchett and Willie Vlautin.
Joseph DanceHOST
Okay.
Joseph DanceHOST
Didn't correct me on the pronunciation of Willie Vlautin.
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Amanda MoulsonHOST
And again, in paperback, important for your packing conundrum, is actually set in Spain.
Amanda MoulsonHOST
Yeah.
Amanda MoulsonHOST
This is Hot Milk by Deborah Levy, which Claude recommended to Joseph.
Amanda MoulsonHOST
And the reason that I say this is it's told in a very scorching location.
Raymond AntrobusGUEST
Chloe Aridjis.
Robert DiamentHOST
And, um, on the cover it actually has a quote from Deborah Levy.
Raymond AntrobusGUEST
Yeah.
Robert DiamentHOST
And it says, um, "One of our boldest writers." And also I saw Zadie Smith said, "The politics of her prose is existential rather than anecdotal, as it was with Kafka's."
Kathleen Volk MillerHOST
Absolutely beautiful.
Karen HildebrandGUEST
I have an author that I do that with, Deborah Levy.
Karen HildebrandGUEST
I read everything that she writes because I fell in love with real estate.
Karen HildebrandGUEST
And there's also Cost of Living, but she's got many more, but there's a trilogy.
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