Brian Dillon and Olivia Laing: Ambivalence

In Ambivalence (Fitzcarraldo) Brian Dillon explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. It’s at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an earnest portrait of the early-adult mind and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life.

Dillon was in conversation with writer Olivia Laing, author of The Silver Book.