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Tahmima Anam | My Writing Playlist
Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam shares a playlist of songs to write to.
Mrs de Pelet
Evie Wyld
‘I see her with her hands cupped in front of her shouting ‘The “O”, ladies, The Vaginal O’ as we read Shakespeare.’
Salman Rushdie on Sunjeev Sahota
Salman Rushdie
‘You open a book by a writer you’ve never heard of and a new voice leaps off the page and makes you listen.’
Forklift Truck Driver Wins Literary Prize!
Adam Foulds
‘There are two options for the young writer and employment. There is the proper job, whatever it might be – law, advertising, medicine or the default choice for many, academia. Or there’s the menial, rent-paying job.’
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.’
Gadi Taub | Best Untranslated Writers
Etgar Keret
‘At first, I thought the best way to introduce Gadi Taub’s powerful novel would be through its sophisticated and twist-filled plot. But the hard hitting story isn’t half as complex and unique as its protagonists.’
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.’
Chinua Achebe’s Legacy
Ike Anya
‘Who will speak out for us now? Who will ask the hard questions of us and the world that he did?’
Al Alvarez | Interview
Al Alvarez & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think anything is good for you that makes you laugh.’
Pondlife: A Swimmer’s Journal
Al Alvarez
‘The water was chilly and sweet – cold enough to stay with me and make me shiver while I did some shopping later.’
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
‘We are back in Paradise and are now trying to come up with a new game.’
NoViolet Bulawayo | Interview
NoViolet Bulawayo
‘My love affair with books had turned into a marriage.’
David McConnell | Interview
David McConnell & Patrick Ryan
‘These were deranged acts but they were ultimately based on something that’s historically been treated as a social good, the sense of personal honour.’
Tan Twan Eng | Podcast
Tan Twan Eng & John Freeman
Tan Twan Eng speaks to Granta’s John Freeman about the art of shakkei and being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In the Shadow of John Ascuaga’s Nugget
Claire Vaye Watkins
‘It would be falsely modest to claim that I appreciate the hot dog on any level beneath that of connoisseur.’
Betrayal
Adam Foulds
‘The thrill of this film – and it is thrilling – is seeing that understood and played out by actors of incredible skill.’
Lillian Li | Interview
Lillian Li
‘I don’t think I ever learned how to tell a story in the literal sense.’
The Ethics of Photojournalism | Podcast
Michael Salu, Afshin Dehkordi & Daniel Campbell Blight
Michael Salu, Afshin Dehkordi and Daniel Campbell Blight on controversial imagery and the relationship between the subject and the photographer.
And Yet
Brian Evenson
‘She had waited expectantly for him to tell her a story to illustrate this, and to explain what those values were, but as with so many other things he had left it at that. It lingered in the air, waiting for her to pluck it up, but she had simply let it hang.’
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.
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.’
From the Past Comes the Storms
Andrés Felipe Solano
‘During the hottest months, the thermometer settles in at 100 degrees like a nonagenarian in a rocker – no one can make it move.’
Eric Anderson and Sean Borodale In Conversation
Eric Anderson & Sean Borodale
‘The incendiary elements that start my poems are often something I find shocking, but hopefully not gratuitous.’
Two Poems
Eric Anderson
‘Wanting to get it all in, like / Xerxes tipping his army’s arrows / with saltpeter / so to ignite the Grecian sky.’
One More Last Stand
Callan Wink
‘It’s funny to think that we existed, us together, before either of our marriages.’
Elias Khoury | Interview
Sophia Efthimiatou & Elias Khoury
‘As the reader follows her in and out of consciousness, her history unravels and entwines with religious and social myths, and Lebanese folklore.’
Granta Norway | Interview
Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To an extent I have tried to make the issue span the full spectrum of Norwegian literature.’
The Quality of the Affection
Lloyd Lynford
‘What thou lovest well cannot be reft from thee. But maybe Ezra was mistaken, maybe it can be reft, but maybe that was her fault.’
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.
