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Sam Lipsyte and Diane Cook in Conversation
Diane Cook & Sam Lipsyte
‘The bewilderment was productive, and relit a good fire under my instinct, which I didn’t have to conflate with certainty.’
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Fiona Benson & Rachael Allen
‘I’ve always wanted to write from the gut, to write instinctively rather than cerebrally.’
Katherine Faw Morris | Interview
Katherine Faw Morris & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted her to be a pit bull.’
Catherine Lacey | Interview
Catherine Lacey & Louise Scothern
‘It's uncomfortable, at times, to be alive, so I see no reason why a voice in fiction shouldn't be also.’
David Peace and Kyoko Nakajima in Conversation
Kyoko Nakajima & David Peace
‘When we talk about history, the dangers of embellishment, fabrication and wilful distortion are ever-present’
Nawzat Shamdin | Interview
Nawzat Shamdin & Larry Siems
‘I remain what I have always been, a human being first, and then an Iraqi. And then I am a writer.’
Norman Rush and Colin McAdam in Conversation
Colin McAdam & Norman Rush
‘Who should write memoirs? I have the not-entirely-serious and absurdly restrictive idea that only morally extraordinary people could write them honestly without much shame’
S.J. Naudé and Ivan Vladislavić In Conversation
S.J. Naudé & Ivan Vladislavić
‘In rapidly transforming societies, writers may lose the space they’ve built their imaginative lives around.’
Lauren Holmes | Interview
Lauren Holmes & Louise Scothern
‘Even if you move to the other side of the world, and even if you don’t speak for years or decades, your family is always going to be a part of you.’
Brigitte Grignet | Interview
Brigitte Grignet & Daniela Silva
‘Places sitting at the edges of the world are often destroyed in the name of so-called development.’