Olivia Laing

The Trip to Echo Spring

Literary journey tracing writers' battles with addiction and the Mississippi

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Olivia Laing

British writer whose The Lonely City and To the River are celebrated literary nonfiction works that blend memoir, criticism, and cultural history. Her novel Crudo is a formally innovative work of autofiction. She is one of the most distinctive literary voices in contemporary Britain.

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