Roy Robins
Roy Robins is the former online editor of Granta.
Roy Robins on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
John Freeman | Interview
John Freeman & Roy Robins
‘I think you know right away if a piece of writing is good. Does it move me? Does it have intensity? Is it beautiful?’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Person of the Year
Roy Robins
‘This conflation of hard-nosed realism and bright-eyed idealism has confused the aims of the award.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Soumya Bhattacharya | Interview
Soumya Bhattacharya & Roy Robins
‘The emotion and the impulse of fiction is autobiographical, but the events never are.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Hannah Gersen | Interview
Hannah Gersen & Roy Robins
‘It’s very satisfying to write short stories because it can be a kind of game — to see how much can be revealed with just a few thousand words.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Erin McMillan | Interview
Erin McMillan & Roy Robins
‘The other important component of the why of writing is that I’ve always been a bit of a liar.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Peter Hobbs | Interview
Peter Hobbs & Roy Robins
‘Illness is solitary, because suffering is something you always do alone.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Evan James Roskos | Interview
Evan James Roskos & Roy Robins
‘There is a view of American men presented by the media – of men as boorish, insensitive, emotionally immature – that manages to underscore various stereotypes that I feel fiction and poetry have a duty to dismantle.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Lana Asfour | Interview
Lana Asfour & Roy Robins
‘I do find in fiction the greatest freedom and therefore the greatest potential meaning.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Evie Wyld | Interview
Evie Wyld & Roy Robins
‘When I was at school I found I received the same satisfaction from writing a short story that I did doing awful self-portraits – only the results were much better.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
P.D. Mallamo | Interview
P. D. Mallamo & Roy Robins
‘Writing and reading in third-person present is like a high-speed drive through Nevada at two a.m.: incredibly invigorating and somewhat dangerous.’
