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Ben Folds and Nick Hornby | Interview
Ben Folds, Nick Hornby & John Freeman
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby talk to John Freeman about literature, music and their new collaborative album.
Anthony Doerr | Interview
Anthony Doerr & Patrick Ryan
‘The natural world is full of records and erasures.’
Toby Litt | Interview
Toby Litt & Ollie Brock
‘I wanted to write a minimalist romance, so I needed to have plenty of Love and Death. A dead human heart is both.’
Anne Rowe | Interview
Anne Rowe
‘From her letters we learn about the woman as opposed to the writer. Iris Murdoch’s philosophy and fiction reveal her rational public face; in her letters she speaks from the heart.’
Elizabeth McCracken | Interview
Elizabeth McCracken
‘This week John Freeman spoke to Best Young American Novelist Elizabeth McCracken about her works-in-progress, a novel that broke up into six short stories, and her contribution to Granta’s latest issue.’
Bill Morgan | Interview
Bill Morgan
‘We’ve fallen out of the habit of writing out our lives for one another, and instead we just pick up the phone.’
Philippe Claudel | Interview
Philippe Claudel & Emily Greenhouse
‘The modern novel can’t sidestep or ignore the idea of evil on an industrial level’
Translating Sex
Natasha Wimmer & Ollie Brock
‘I won’t say that the mood of a scene doesn’t affect me, but I’m not the translating equivalent of a Method actor.’
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.’
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.’
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.’
Jonathan Safran Foer | Interview
Jonathan Safran Foer & Ollie Brock
‘This is the sort of book I wanted to read, wanted to have, regretted not having.’
Jess Row | Interview
Jess Row & Ollie Brock
‘What I’m most drawn to in writing about this subject is the way in which very small, intimate acts of violence (not even necessarily physical violence) often serve as a microcosm or incubator for the massive, cataclysmic violence we see all around us in the world.’
