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Photo from Steven Miller, Creative Commons Novelist Claire-Louise Bennett appeared in conversation with writer and psychoanalyst Josh Cohen as part of the 2025 London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre. Bennett’s acclaimed first book Pond  (2015), a short story collection, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize , and her novel Checkout 19  (2021) was a 'Books of 2021' pick in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and   The New Statesman . Her latest, “Elatingly risk