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Gordon Burn | Interview
Gordon Burn & Simon Willis
‘The line between reality and its representation has become rivetingly porous.’
Patrick deWitt and Neel Mukherjee in Conversation
Patrick deWitt & Neel Mukherjee
Neel Mukherjee and Patrick deWitt discuss their books Undermajordomo Minor and The Lives of Others, subconscious influence, the power of the exclamation mark and love.
Garth Risk Hallberg | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Garth Risk Hallberg & Luke Neima
‘I am very interested in the question of reality on the one hand and imagination on the other, so the mirror has to be angled slightly to take in something that isn’t already there’
In Conversation: Tishani Doshi and Karthika Naïr
Tishani Doshi & Karthika Naïr
‘I have never felt it as a poet, and that is why I’m doubly grateful to dance, for having experienced the loneliness and the terror of the empty stage, but also, to have had that live connection.’
Catherine Chung | Interview
Catherine Chung & Ollie Brock
‘I think my interest in mathematics was that of a writer: I was always trying to translate it back into a story.’
Claire Vaye Watkins | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Claire Vaye Watkins & Josie Mitchell
‘Even in fiction, a writer's job is to tell the truth’
Interview with Theodore Solotaroff
Theodore Solotaroff & William Warner
‘People belong to literary movements which are abstractions rather than to ways of life which are concrete.’
Nick Papadimitriou | Interview
Nick Papadimitriou & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I found that the torrent of inner voices I habitually heard began to organise itself in relation to the landscapes I passed through, the things I saw.’
Yaa Gyasi | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Yaa Gyasi & Luke Neima
‘Place is something I'm fascinated by and how it shapes you in ways that are really hard to see and imagine’
Jo Broughton | Interview
Jo Broughton & Ollie Brock
‘Jo Broughton’s parents were ‘too busy killing each other’, she says, to know where she went when she ran away from home aged seventeen.’
Interview: Yann Faucher
Yann Faucher & Emily Greenhouse
‘I use my body as a material, in an attempt to make it impersonal for the viewer. It’s easy to be your own subject/model, but my primary aim is not narcissism.’
Ian Teh | Interview
Ian Teh & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’
