Nicole Flattery & Claire-Louise Bennett: Nothing Special
Wednesday 8 March 2023, 7 p.m. · 64 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/2/7/4/0/3970472-1-eng-GB/Nicole%20Flattery.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/2/7/4/0/3970472-1-eng-GB/Nicole%20Flattery.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/2/7/4/0/3970472-1-eng-GB/Nicole%20Flattery.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/2/7/4/0/3970472-1-eng-GB/Nicole%20Flattery.jpg 1200w)
New York in the late 1960s: Mae escapes a run-down an apartment, an alcoholic mother and her mother’s occasional boyfriend to a new life as a typist for Andy Warhol, transcribing conversations with his friends and associates to provide the material for an unconventional novel. A mordantly funny investigation of celebrity, obsession, womanhood and sexuality, Nothing Special (Bloomsbury) is itself an unconventional debut novel, following on from Flattery’s acclaimed short story collection Show Them a Good Time.
Nicole Flattery was in conversation with Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond and Checkout 19.
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