‘I can’t fathom being interested in writing without the excitement of the possibility of the sentence.’
‘We all now exist as avatars, on shining tiles in these cubist landscapes’ Joanna Kavenna discusses her all-too-familiar surveillance dystopia, Zed.
‘I think the infrastructure of community around fathering is very limited.’ We discuss Caleb Klaces’s debut novel, Fatherhood.
‘Imagine if an alien came to earth and asked, so how to you reproduce?’We discuss Blue Ticket and the body horror of motherhood.
‘Unless you are completely shut down and in denial, there’s no way you’re getting out of this without having changed.’ Ottessa Moshfegh on 2020 and her new novel.
We discuss the dilemmas presented by her new memoir, In the Dream House. ‘What does it mean to present a face of one’s community that isn’t commonly seen, and that might be seen as bad PR?’
We discuss her collection, Doing the Most with the Least, on the Granta Podcast.‘don’t be / shocked when I say I was in prison you’re still in prison that’s / what this land means prison.’
We discuss her new book, Weather, on the Granta Podcast.‘Yes, it's dire. Yes, we're not sure what to do. Does that mean we have nothing to do?’
‘While you’re still arguing you still have hope.’
In this episode of the podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self.
Margo Jefferson reads ‘The Uncle’ by Kathleen Collins, taken from the story collection, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
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.
A discussion of the mind of Abraham Lincoln, the art of creating historical voices, verbal improv and writing the afterlife.
Williams discusses her approach to writing and editing, the gatekeepers of literary publication and stitching.
