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Eric Anderson and Sean Borodale In Conversation
Eric Anderson & Sean Borodale
‘The incendiary elements that start my poems are often something I find shocking, but hopefully not gratuitous.’
Writing Chicago
Aleksandar Hemon & Stuart Dybek
Aleksandar Hemon and Stuart Dybek on the energy and inspiration of Chicago, its exhilirating ‘incompleteness’, and the ‘unique perspectives of seeing the city’.
Steven Hall | Podcast
Steven Hall & Ted Hodgkinson
Steven Hall on the internet, writing from memory and Ian the Cat.
Andre Dubus III | Interview
Andre Dubus III & Catherine Tung
‘Everybody gets an imagination at birth, and I truly believe that deep down, we all have an intimate knowledge of the other.’
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.’
Samantha Smith | Interview
Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To write this memoir, I’ve had to open old wounds and go back to them again and again.’
Kevin Brockmeier | Interview
Kevin Brockmeier & Yuka Igarashi
‘The great big real world of sensations and objects and other people’s minds is already deeply strange, but sometimes it takes a change of perspective for us to see it clearly.’
Bani Abidi | Interview
Bani Abidi & Saskia Vogel
‘I prefer to engage with things I may or may not find important at my own discretion, and feel a bit throttled by the world’s anxious curiosity about Pakistan.’
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.’
Dan Rhodes | Interview
Dan Rhodes & Ted Hodgkinson
‘My work tends to be about people who struggle to understand what’s going on around them. I can’t think why that would be.’
Gordon Burn | Interview
Gordon Burn & Simon Willis
‘The line between reality and its representation has become rivetingly porous.’
Maria Venegas | Interview
Maria Venegas
Maria Venegas discusses ‘Bullet Proof Vest’, her essay from Granta 108: ‘Chicago’ about her criminal father, who ‘shot a man when he was twelve years old’.
