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Emily Berry | Interview
Emily Berry & Rachael Allen
‘I’m not even very comfortable being defined as a female poet. You never hear about ‘male poets’.’
Helen Mort | Interview
Helen Mort & Rachael Allen
‘I think there’s something seductive and liberating about the way you can create shadowy characters in a poem.’
Soumya Bhattacharya | Interview
Soumya Bhattacharya & Roy Robins
‘The emotion and the impulse of fiction is autobiographical, but the events never are.’
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.’
A.M. Homes | Interview
A.M. Homes & Yuka Igarashi
‘I don’t want to make suffering a positive (or negative); I very much want to acknowledge it without judgment.’
John Barth | Interview
John Barth
‘Everything we do in art is likely to turn out to be either prophecy or exorcism, whatever its other intentions.’
Ann Patchett | Interview
Ann Patchett & Patrick Ryan
‘I grew up in an environment where there was nothing weird about limitless friendship.’
Nathan Englander | Interview
Nathan Englander & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I don’t want to write any story that I think can be written.’
Chloe Aridjis | Interview
Chloe Aridjis & Ted Hodgkinson
‘What really struck me was the way the Suffragettes were pathologized, and the way women who took a political stance were deemed ‘hysterical’ in some way.’
Natalie Merchant | Interview
Natalie Merchant & Ellah Alfrey
‘Favourite poets, children’s ‘emergence into the world of language’ and their first glimpses of mortality.’
Patrick deWitt | Interview
Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Names are always hard to come by for me, which can be maddening, because it’s an ever-looming question mark when I’m trying to bring a character into focus. And oftentimes it’s the name that solidifies someone in my mind.’
