Ted Hodgkinson
Ted Hodgkinson is the previous online editor at Granta. He was a judge for the 2012 Costa Book Awards’ poetry prize, announced earlier this year. He managed the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Tuscany, the affiliated Gregor Von Rezzori Literary Prize and still serves as an advisor. His stories have appeared in Notes from the Underground and The Mays and his criticism in the Times Literary Supplement. He has an MA in English from Oxford and an MFA from Columbia.
Ted Hodgkinson on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
A. Igoni Barrett | Interview
A. Igoni Barrett & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Fixing the rhythm of one sentence in the novel I’m working on is more vital for me than any considerations of where I’m coming from or where my work is headed.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
George Saunders | Podcast
George Saunders & Ted Hodgkinson
George Saunders talks about allowing his characters access to goodness, why he avoids ‘auto-dark’ in his stories, and the death of David Foster Wallace.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Steven Hall | Podcast
Steven Hall & Ted Hodgkinson
Steven Hall on the internet, writing from memory and Ian the Cat.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta Portugal | Interview
Carlos Vaz Marques & Ted Hodgkinson
‘We’ve kept the issue a secret because our goal was to offer a genuine feeling of discovery to Granta Portugal’s subscribers.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Nadifa Mohamed | Podcast
Nadifa Mohamed & Ted Hodgkinson
Nadifa Mohamed speaks with Ted Hodgkinson about her first novel, Black Mamba Boy.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Helen Oyeyemi | Podcast
Ted Hodgkinson & Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi speaks to Ted Hodgkinson about the joys of writing from a male perspective, magic in her work, and how as a girl she wrote alternate endings to the classics.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
David Szalay | Podcast
David Szalay & Ted Hodgkinson
David Szalay on how spending time in Hungary makes it easier to write about London, trying to live off betting on horses and how memory informs his work.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Chloe Aridjis | Interview
Chloe Aridjis & Ted Hodgkinson
‘What really struck me was the way the Suffragettes were pathologized, and the way women who took a political stance were deemed ‘hysterical’ in some way.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Evie Wyld | Podcast
Evie Wyld & Ted Hodgkinson
Evie Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Turkish Granta | Interview
Berrak Gocer & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The writings, when they came together, made it very clear that there will always be a new approach to the issue of identity.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta China | Interview
Patrizia van Daalen, Peng Lun & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Young perspectives always facilitate access to a culture because they are more easily accepted, and it is easier, most times, to assimilate with them.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Al Alvarez | Interview
Al Alvarez & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think anything is good for you that makes you laugh.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
James Lasdun | Podcast
James Lasdun & Ted Hodgkinson
James Lasdun on his memoir, D.H. Lawrence and why finding a close reader can sometimes be a curse.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Dan Rhodes | Interview
Dan Rhodes & Ted Hodgkinson
‘My work tends to be about people who struggle to understand what’s going on around them. I can’t think why that would be.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta Norway | Interview
Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To an extent I have tried to make the issue span the full spectrum of Norwegian literature.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Colin Robinson | Podcast
Colin Robinson & Ted Hodgkinson
Colin Robinson reads from his memoir ‘Paddleball’ in Granta 122: Betrayal and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a game in New York, and how gym culture has changed the way we view our bodies.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Deborah Levy | Podcast
Deborah Levy & Ted Hodgkinson
Here Deborah Levy spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why as she wants to resist anything resembling a comfort zone and why writing fiction is about ‘finding reasons to live’.
Art & Photography | Issue 120
Brad Feuerhelm | Podcast
Brad Feuerhelm & Ted Hodgkinson
Brad Feuerhelm spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the stories that lie behind his images from the issue and how his work is informed by his love of horror movies.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Jeet Thayil | Podcast
Jeet Thayil & Ted Hodgkinson
Jeet Thayil talked to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker, the images of Christ woven into his novel Narcopolis and an unexpected digression on Blade Runner.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Zadie Smith | Interview
Zadie Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
Zadie Smith on writing tighter sentences, the ‘essential hubris’ of criticism and why novelists prefer writing in their pyjamas.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Claire Vaye Watkins | Podcast
Claire Vaye Watkins & Ted Hodgkinson
‘These are stories that capture sudden, unexpected intimacies and unearth alternate family mythologies in seemingly innocuous objects.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Florence Boyd | Interview
Florence Boyd & Ted Hodgkinson
‘There is a dichotomy of darkness and beauty within things that we can’t confront head on.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Anthony Shadid | Interview
Anthony Shadid & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It’s very difficult to say what kind of Iraq is going to emerge from this trauma. I think we have to wait a generation.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Peter Stamm | Podcast
Peter Stamm & Ted Hodgkinson
Peter Stamm on imagining his characters as buildings, why he wants to have a room full of ugly objects and whether he believes that people can change.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Nathan Englander | Interview
Nathan Englander & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I don’t want to write any story that I think can be written.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Ben Lerner | Interview
Ben Lerner & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I have no memory of intending to write a novel.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Sam Byers | Podcast
Sam Byers & Ted Hodgkinson
‘She lived in fear of him saying something interesting, which might make her fall in love with him; or something horrific, which would shatter the illusion she’d so carefully constructed.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Adam Thirlwell | Interview
Adam Thirlwell & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I suppose it’s that word hyper that I was after: I was trying to find a form for a kind of hyper energy or anxiety.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Paula Bohince | Interview
Paula Bohince & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I like the friction of fixed physical atmospheres with different lives passing through.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Interview
Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Poetry’s strongest response, on the other hand, is determined, open-ended world-making, which is the work of empathy.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Ian Teh | Interview
Ian Teh & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Nick Papadimitriou | Interview
Nick Papadimitriou & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I found that the torrent of inner voices I habitually heard began to organise itself in relation to the landscapes I passed through, the things I saw.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Sean Borodale | Podcast
Sean Borodale & Ted Hodgkinson
Ted Hodgkinson interviews Granta New Poet Sean Borodale.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Cynan Jones | Podcast
Cynan Jones & Ted Hodgkinson
Cynan Jones spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why he doesn’t want to be defined as a Welsh writer, the pleasures and challenges of writing short stories and novellas and writing about the growing pains of adolescence.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Granta Italy 3 | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I do not feel our authors set out to reflect their age or their epoch: they are not into literature as sociology.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Andrés Neuman | Podcast
Andrés Neuman & Ted Hodgkinson
‘During the four hours they spent alone three times a week, Hans and Sophie alternated between books and bed, bed and books, exploring one another in words and reading one another’s bodies.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Hari Kunzru | Interview
Hari Kunzru & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It was interesting to me how readily UFOs can be mapped onto a spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky and so on.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Jon McGregor | Podcast
Jon McGregor & Ted Hodgkinson
Jon McGregor on reworking his first published story from the female perspective, his enduring fascination with Lincolnshire and his new short story collection, This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Granta Italy Sex | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think that the metaphor of bodily failure is a very apt one to reflect the feeling of weakness and despondency palpable today within the Italian society.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Nick Dybek | Interview
Nick Dybek & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Maybe it’s what draws so many writers to the adolescent perspective; during that time, imagination and experience are in a death match.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Highlights of 2011 | Podcast
Ted Hodgkinson
A compilation of some of the best readings of 2011, including Binyavanga Wainaina reading from his memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place, Robert Coover’s reading of his online story ‘Vampire’ and Granta debut contributor Taiye Selasi's reading of ‘The Sex Lives of African Girls’.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Peter Orner | Interview
Peter Orner & Ted Hodgkinson
‘For me the strange moments that make up our lives are plot.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Robert Coover | Podcast
Robert Coover & Ted Hodgkinson
Robert Coover reads his short story ‘Vampire’ and discusses the quintessential English novel and the intersection between myth and the modern world.
In Conversation | Issue 120
Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The question of whether or not I’m addressing America in my writing only comes up with people outside of America.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Wiam El-Tamami | Interview
Wiam El-Tamami & Ted Hodgkinson
‘So you see, translators tread a tricky tightrope between capturing the full implications of the Arabic while creating an English text that flows smoothly and doesn’t sound overwrought, dated, or downright melodramatic.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Names are always hard to come by for me, which can be maddening, because it’s an ever-looming question mark when I’m trying to bring a character into focus. And oftentimes it’s the name that solidifies someone in my mind.’
In Conversation | Issue 120
Samantha Smith | Interview
Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To write this memoir, I’ve had to open old wounds and go back to them again and again.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 120
Stacks
Ted Hodgkinson
‘There are few things worse than being rebuked by the very books you have promised yourself you will read.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 120
A Plausible Portrait
Ted Hodgkinson
‘My friends say I am secretive and devious,’ he wrote in the introduction to Picasso and Dora. ‘They’re right.’
