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Here Comes the Sun | New Voices
Jaime Karnes
‘It’s more love than anyone has ever felt, I’m sure. I have an urge to donate it to children in Africa, or give it to the girl that works the kiosk in the mall. I’ll give it to a lonely continent.’
In Shinjuku
Yang Sok-il
‘I found myself sitting on a bench in Shinjuku Central Park, dazed like a junkie, when the wind plastered a sports tabloid to my legs and an advertisement jumped out at me‘
Selling Your First Soul
Kseniya Melnik
‘The Russia of my memories was largely imaginary – a cauldron of nostalgia-tinted material, which I calibrated with scrupulous research.’
Ben Okri | Interview
Ben Okri & Saskia Vogel
‘Whenever we use the word beauty or we feel it, it comes from a sense of something indefinable.’
Kevin Brockmeier | Interview
Kevin Brockmeier & Yuka Igarashi
‘The great big real world of sensations and objects and other people’s minds is already deeply strange, but sometimes it takes a change of perspective for us to see it clearly.’
Like We Are
Binnie Kirshenbaum
‘My father can speak just fine. Nonetheless, he does not speak to me; nor I to him.’
Boar
Leo Mellor
‘A rustle in the bracken; then, almost immediately, a snout and some wiry black hair.’
Madison Smartt Bell | Interview
Madison Smartt Bell & Ollie Brock
‘A lot of my stories are like lint in your pocket.’
Rabbit Cycling
Madison Smartt Bell
‘He’d lost her first name in a burst of senseless coloured lights and he couldn’t tell her his own name because he didn’t know it.’
Jennifer Egan | Interview
Jennifer Egan & Yuka Igarashi
‘It wasn’t an experiment so much as a response to the need to find a way to embody the oddly shaped story I wanted to tell.’
On Riker’s Island
David McConnell
‘A lifelong backlog of unimparted knowledge must corrode the flesh.’
Yakisoba
Hiromi Itō
‘Who connects with the next woman / With tens and hundreds and thousands of women.’
Go, Japanese!
Kyoko Nakajima
‘On the boat none of them will know who will meet them where they go. This is the world, they say to themselves. There is no need to worry. And this part is true, as worry functions were never built in.’
Ann Patchett | Interview
Ann Patchett & Patrick Ryan
‘I grew up in an environment where there was nothing weird about limitless friendship.’
Walking on the West Bank
Robert Macfarlane
‘As walking becomes less easy, it has become correspondingly more important.’
Ali Akbar Natiq | Interview
Ali Akbar Natiq & Ollie Brock
‘No character in my stories is an ideal person; they are mere human beings who can either be oppressors or oppressed, or sometimes both at the same time.’
A Mason’s Hand | New Voices
Ali Akbar Natiq
‘Haji sahib, these kids are beyond me. I can’t teach them any more. Please make some other arrangement.’
Philip Oltermann | Interview
Philip Oltermann & Ollie Brock
Philip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.
Chris Dennis | Interview
Chris Dennis & Ellah Allfrey
‘A story is a dream, and no matter how fantastic the dream is, it’s still constructed from reality.’
Contacts
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Photographs from the Belfast Exposed Archive, documenting the Troubles from the early 1970s.
New Hotel Krakow
Adam Zagajewski
‘Now someone else lives in that apartment, / strange people, the scent of a strange life.’
A poem by Adam Zagajewski.
Edenvale
Mark Gevisser
‘The city was also a place of possibility and even, paradoxically, liberation.’
The Mercies
Ann Patchett
‘Once you knew what God wanted from your life, you would have to be ten different kinds of fool to look the other way.’
James
Madeleine Thien
‘You can follow the trail but you can’t know in which direction you are headed’
