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	Podcast:		The LRB Podcast
	Episode:		Colin Burrow: Fiction and the Age of Lies
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		01:08:50
	Publish Date:		2020-02-12 14:04:31
	Description:		The line between making a fiction and telling a lie has been blurry at least since Homer, and liars – from Odysseus and Iago to Austen’s Wickham and beyond – have often played central parts within fictions. This lecture will aim to tell some (though not all) of the truth about the relationship between lies and fiction from Homer to Ian McEwan, and will ask if fiction has responded adequately to the maggoty abundance of lies in public life at the present time. Read more by Colin Burrow in the LRB: lrb.me/colinburrowpod Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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