# Olivia Laing & Jack Parlett: The Silver Book Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/olivia-laing-jack-parlett-the-silver-book Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/olivia-laing-jack-parlett-the-silver-book.md Podcast: [London Review Bookshop Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718) Published: 2026-08-10T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LRB7398329886.mp3 Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LRB7398329886.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/episodes/olivia-laing-jack-parlett-the-silver-book Duration seconds: 3645 ## Resource Venice, September 1974. A chance meeting between a young English artist and Danilo Donati, production manager for Fellini and Pasolini, leads us into a tale of queer love, political intrigue and brutal murder. Emily Watlington wrote in Art in America β€˜In our own era of rising fascism, of increasing violence and conservatism, Laing's novel feels eerily timely.’ To mark the paperback publication of The Silver Book Olivia Laing was reading from their work, and in conversation with Jack Parlett, author of Flamboyance, Fire Island and The Poetics of Cruising. You can buy a copy of The Silver Book from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/episodes/olivia-laing-jack-parlett-the-silver-book/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/olivia-laing-jack-parlett-the-silver-book.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.