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Sam Byers | Podcast
Sam Byers & Ted Hodgkinson
‘She lived in fear of him saying something interesting, which might make her fall in love with him; or something horrific, which would shatter the illusion she’d so carefully constructed.’
Léonie Hampton | Interview
Léonie Hampton & Yuka Igarashi
‘I see a dichotomy at play where I am trying to be truthful, but it’s hard to be direct.’
Adam Thirlwell | Interview
Adam Thirlwell & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I suppose it’s that word hyper that I was after: I was trying to find a form for a kind of hyper energy or anxiety.’
Rachel Seiffert | Podcast
Rachel Seiffert & Yuka Igarashi
Rachel Seiffert reads her work and talks to Granta about writing silences, the inescapability of history, the Troubles and learning to love her characters.
Paula Bohince | Interview
Paula Bohince & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I like the friction of fixed physical atmospheres with different lives passing through.’
Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Interview
Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Poetry’s strongest response, on the other hand, is determined, open-ended world-making, which is the work of empathy.’
Emma Martin | Interview
Emma Martin
‘I’ve occasionally caught a kind of self-consciousness stalking me when I write about New Zealand.’
Diana McCaulay | Interview
Diana McCaulay
‘I want my writing to be grounded in the real and complex place, without nostalgia or idealization.’
Andrea Mullaney | Interview
Andrea Mullaney
‘To move past the ugly parts of history, you have to acknowledge them, on all sides, and this is what I think historical fiction can do so well: show how we got from there to here.’
Jekwu Anyaegbuna | Interview
Jekwu Anyaegbuna
‘I think it would be counterproductive for me to think too much about readers while producing a piece of fiction because the enjoyment of it varies from one person to another – and it’s impossible to satisfy everybody.’
Anushka Jasraj | Interview
Anushka Jasraj
‘I’ve never really had any readership, apart from fellow writers who have been forced to read my stories in writing workshops.’
