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Dominique Fortier and Rhonda Mullins In Conversation
Dominique Fortier & Rhonda Mullins
Translator and writer Rhonda Mullins in conversation with novelist and translator Dominique Fortier.
Kamila Shamsie In Conversation
Kamila Shamsie & Eleanor Chandler
‘There’s a certain adrenaline rush that comes from not knowing.’ Kamila Shamsie on writing the unsaid, the challenges of adapting Antigone and the role of the novel in politics.
Max Porter reads Will Self
Max Porter & Will Self
In this episode of the podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self.
Andrés Barba on Such Small Hands
Andrés Barba & Josie Mitchell
Granta’s Josie Mitchell talked to Andrés Barba about his new book, Such Small Hands, Gothic and Greek Literature, and how he approaches writing from a child's perspective.
Rachel B. Glaser | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Rachel B. Glaser & Luke Neima
'If you can surprise yourself with your writing then it’s a lot more fun, and it’s a lot more interesting. That often involves creating characters you’ve never met or writing people that are not like you.’
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’
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’
Jillian Weise | Five Things Right Now
Jillian Weise
Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
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’
Jesse Ball | Interview
Jesse Ball
‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’
Esmé Weijun Wang | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Esmé Weijun Wang
‘I really love Southern Gothic literature and so part of me was like – well, what if I could create an Immigrant Gothic?’
Emma Cline | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Emma Cline & Luke Neima
‘I really like the artificiality of fiction, even though it’s often embarrassing and clumsy to create something out of thin air’