Sam Byers
Sam Byers is the author of three novels: Idiopathy (2013); Perfidious Albion (2018); and Come Join Our Disease (2021). His non-fiction has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Times Literary Supplement
Sam Byers on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Katherine Angel & Sam Byers
‘I was experiencing a sort of muteness and inhibition, a need to burrow away and think, quietly, alone.’
Katherine Angel, author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again speaks to Sam Byers, author of Come Join Our Disease.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Selected
Sam Byers
‘Across the country, at any given moment lives are unravelling in rooms of crushing uniformity.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 2009: William Vollmann’s Imperial
Sam Byers
Sam Byers on why William Vollmann’s Imperial is the best book of 2009
Fiction | The Online Edition
Perfidious Albion
Sam Byers
‘In terms of aspiration, leaving London was the new moving to London. You slogged it out, made a name for yourself, then decamped to the sticks and devoted yourself to trashing city life on Twitter while roaming the fields in pursuit of your tweedy ideals.’
In Conversation | Issue 119
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.’
