London Review Bookshop Podcast Kathryn Scanlan & Emily LaBarge: Aug 9 – Fog
Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan (Kick the Latch, The Dominant Animal) acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited, arranged and rearranged the diarist’s words into the composition that is Aug 9 – Fog.
Scanlan was joined by Emily LaBarge, whose book Dog Days was published in autumn 2025.
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