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Chinelo Okparanta | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Chinelo Okparanta & Luke Neima
‘As a person in the diaspora sometimes you ask yourself, well who will claim you? And then it really is up to you to claim a place for yourself.’
Catherine Lacey | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Catherine Lacey & Luke Neima
Catherine Lacey discuses voice, characterization and the minute details that bring a story to life
Nicole Krauss In Conversation
Nicole Krauss
‘The ancient stories we tell, as beautiful as they may be, also serve to shape our conventions about who we think we are or should be’
Sarah Hall and Tessa Hadley In Conversation
Sarah Hall & Tessa Hadley
‘Literature is that odd paradox: an artifice that somehow truthfully engages the reader, the mind, the emotions, the self, in essential communion.’
How to Fight Climate Change
James Thornton & Martin Goodman
A discussion of the environmental pratfalls of Brexit and the Trump presidency, and how judicial action is best used in the fight against climate change.
Andrea Stuart In Conversation | Podcast
Andrea Stuart
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.
Toni Morrison In Conversation
Toni Morrison, Mario Kaiser & Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Mario Kaiser interview the Nobel Laureate.
George Saunders In Conversation | Podcast
George Saunders
A discussion of the mind of Abraham Lincoln, the art of creating historical voices, verbal improv and writing the afterlife.
Maureen N. McLane in Conversation
Maureen N. McLane & Rachael Allen
Granta’s poetry editor Rachael Allen talks to Maureen N. McLane about ecology, lyric authority, and balancing poetry with criticism.
Madeleine Thien In Conversation
Madeleine Thien & Ka Bradley
‘Do you speak or do you not speak? Is every word that you speak then compromised?’
Patrick deWitt and Neel Mukherjee in Conversation
Patrick deWitt & Neel Mukherjee
Neel Mukherjee and Patrick deWitt discuss their books Undermajordomo Minor and The Lives of Others, subconscious influence, the power of the exclamation mark and love.
George Saunders and Ben Marcus In Conversation
George Saunders & Ben Marcus
‘One purpose of art is to get us to wake up, recalibrate our emotional life, get ourselves into proper relation to reality.’