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Amy Sackville | The Proust Questionnaire
Amy Sackville
‘What is your guiltiest pleasure? Is it really a pleasure if you feel bad about it?’
Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation
Danez Smith & Kaveh Akbar
Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar share sublime food experiences, discuss their latest collections and ask one another how best to bring community into poetry.
In Conversation: Will Ashon and Greg Milner
Will Ashon & Greg Milner
‘The techniques of hip-hop are always evolving – does that make it an inherently unstable technology, and is that where much of its aesthetic excitement derives from?’
Sheila Heti and Tao Lin In Conversation
Sheila Heti & Tao Lin
Sheila Heti and Tao Lin discuss writing about motherhood and psychedelics, what changes when you begin to write under contract, and narrative forms that mimic the menstrual cycle.
Katharine Kilalea and Emily Berry In Conversation
Katharine Kilalea & Emily Berry
Katharine Kilalea and Emily Berry discuss architecture, psychoanalysis and the different types of exposure that come with writing prose and poetry.
William Atkins In Conversation
William Atkins & Luke Neima
William Atkins in conversation about his new book, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places.
Amy Bloom | Five Things Right Now
Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Karl Ove Knausgaard | The Proust Questionnaire
Karl Ove Knausgaard
'What is your most unappealing habit? Maybe all the brain-like chewing gums I leave behind everywhere I work.'
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | Five Things Right Now
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
‘The only recurring emotion I remember experiencing was a kind of manic delight at procrastinating.’
Dominique Fortier and Rhonda Mullins In Conversation
Dominique Fortier & Rhonda Mullins
Translator and writer Rhonda Mullins in conversation with novelist and translator Dominique Fortier.
Kamila Shamsie In Conversation
Kamila Shamsie & Eleanor Chandler
‘There’s a certain adrenaline rush that comes from not knowing.’ Kamila Shamsie on writing the unsaid, the challenges of adapting Antigone and the role of the novel in politics.
Max Porter reads Will Self
Max Porter & Will Self
In this episode of the podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self.
Andrés Barba on Such Small Hands
Andrés Barba & Josie Mitchell
Granta’s Josie Mitchell talked to Andrés Barba about his new book, Such Small Hands, Gothic and Greek Literature, and how he approaches writing from a child's perspective.
Jillian Weise | Five Things Right Now
Jillian Weise
Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Jesse Ball | Interview
Jesse Ball & Josie Mitchell
‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’
Nicole Krauss In Conversation
Nicole Krauss
‘The ancient stories we tell, as beautiful as they may be, also serve to shape our conventions about who we think we are or should be’
Catherine Lacey | Five Things Right Now
Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Peter Stamm on To the Back of Beyond
Peter Stamm & Luke Neima
Peter Stamm on the drive of freedom in literature, German Romanticism and narrational technique.
Sarah Hall and Tessa Hadley In Conversation
Sarah Hall & Tessa Hadley
‘Literature is that odd paradox: an artifice that somehow truthfully engages the reader, the mind, the emotions, the self, in essential communion.’
Mark Doten | Five Things Right Now
Mark Doten
‘Is there any doubt that Proust would have been obsessed with the Internet?’
How to Fight Climate Change
James Thornton & Martin Goodman
A discussion of the environmental pratfalls of Brexit and the Trump presidency, and how judicial action is best used in the fight against climate change.
Margo Jefferson Reads Kathleen Collins | Podcast
Margo Jefferson & Kathleen Collins
Margo Jefferson reads ‘The Uncle’ by Kathleen Collins, taken from the story collection, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Andrea Stuart In Conversation | Podcast
Andrea Stuart & Josie Mitchell
Josie Mitchell talks to Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They discuss the value of feminist porn, the importance of counter narratives and the challenges faced by feminist pornographers.
Emma Cline | Five Things Right Now
Emma Cline
The author of The Girls and one of our 2017 Best of Young American Novelist shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Daniel Magariel | Five Things Right Now
Daniel Magariel
Daniel Magariel shares five things he’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Paul Auster In Conversation
Paul Auster & Luke Neima
Paul Auster in conversation about existential doubt, where he finds his inspiration, and the writing of his longest novel to date, 4 3 2 1.
Julianne Pachico and Colin Barrett in Conversation
Julianne Pachico & Colin Barrett
Julianne Pachico and Colin Barrett debate line writing vs free writing, inherited literatures and how to give a reading.
Eli Goldstone | Five Things Right Now
Eli Goldstone
‘The closest I come to meditating is sitting in front of a tumble dryer with a dead magazine.’
George Saunders In Conversation | Podcast
George Saunders
A discussion of the mind of Abraham Lincoln, the art of creating historical voices, verbal improv and writing the afterlife.
Sarah Gerard | Five Things Right Now
Sarah Gerard
Sarah Gerard on Leonora Carrington, shoegaze music and gaslighting.
Sana Krasikov and Viv Groskop In Conversation
Sana Krasikov & Viv Groskop
Sana Krasikov and Viv Groskop discuss the Soviet experience, the rise of mass cynicism and the politics of Russia and the US today.
Sana Krasikov | Five Things Right Now
Sana Krasikov
‘The world is teeming with demons who are always looking for ways to screw with your good fortune.’
