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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?’
Evan James Roskos | Interview
Evan James Roskos & Roy Robins
‘There is a view of American men presented by the media – of men as boorish, insensitive, emotionally immature – that manages to underscore various stereotypes that I feel fiction and poetry have a duty to dismantle.’
Evie Wyld | Interview
Evie Wyld & Roy Robins
‘When I was at school I found I received the same satisfaction from writing a short story that I did doing awful self-portraits – only the results were much better.’
Evie Wyld | Podcast
Evie Wyld & Ted Hodgkinson
Evie Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.
Florence Boyd | Interview
Florence Boyd & Ted Hodgkinson
‘There is a dichotomy of darkness and beauty within things that we can’t confront head on.’
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’
Gary Shteyngart | Interview
Gary Shteyngart & Emily Greenhouse
‘I can’t even afford to have thoughts on London, much less live or visit there.’
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.’
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.
Gordon Burn | Interview
Gordon Burn & Simon Willis
‘The line between reality and its representation has become rivetingly porous.’
Granta China | Interview
Patrizia van Daalen, Peng Lun & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Young perspectives always facilitate access to a culture because they are more easily accepted, and it is easier, most times, to assimilate with them.’
