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Rajesh Parameswaran | Interview
Rajesh Parameswaran & Yuka Igarashi
‘I could tell you that love and violence are basic forces interwoven through all of nature and human affairs, and that’s why I mix the two.’
Catherine Chung | Interview
Catherine Chung & Patrick Ryan
‘I think that my appreciation of what’s considered beautiful or elegant in math definitely carried over into what I appreciate in other fields as well. ’
Edmund White | Interview
Edmund White & Patrick Ryan
‘Although I was trying for the big-city and suburban realism of Yates, I didn’t mind adding a bit of fairy dust in the dialogue.’
Hari Kunzru | Interview
Hari Kunzru & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It was interesting to me how readily UFOs can be mapped onto a spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky and so on.’
Chinelo Okparanta | Interview
Chinelo Okparanta & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted to be sure to approach their resistance to Nnenna’s homosexuality from a practical perspective – one of fear, rather than one of hate.’
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Jacob Newberry & Vanessa Manko
‘I feel like I’ll spend a great many years unravelling whatever is being stored inside of me just now.’
Juan Pablo Villalobos | Interview
Juan Pablo Villalobos & Rosalind Harvey
‘I’m not interested in ‘transparent’ or ‘objective’ narrators, I’m just looking for gripping fictional voices.’
Don DeLillo | Interview
Don DeLillo & Yuka Igarashi
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
Granta Italy Sex | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think that the metaphor of bodily failure is a very apt one to reflect the feeling of weakness and despondency palpable today within the Italian society.’
Nick Dybek | Interview
Nick Dybek & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Maybe it’s what draws so many writers to the adolescent perspective; during that time, imagination and experience are in a death match.’
Peter Orner | Interview
Peter Orner & Ted Hodgkinson
‘For me the strange moments that make up our lives are plot.’
Owen Freeman | Interview
Owen Freeman & Daniela Silva
‘As illustrators, our first and last service is to bring the readers’ eyes to the author’s work.’