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Jeffrey Eugenides on Adam Thirlwell
Jeffrey Eugenides
‘The playfulness of the language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material.’
Ellen Bryant Voigt | Interview
Ellen Bryant Voigt & Rachael Allen
‘I don’t think of music and narrative as being mutually exclusive – some of my poems ARE narrative, and are as ‘sound-driven’ as the lyrics.’
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.’
Philip Oltermann | Interview
Philip Oltermann & Ollie Brock
Philip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.
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.’
Granta Norway | Interview
Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To an extent I have tried to make the issue span the full spectrum of Norwegian literature.’
Lauren Holmes | Interview
Lauren Holmes & Louise Scothern
‘Even if you move to the other side of the world, and even if you don’t speak for years or decades, your family is always going to be a part of you.’
Daniel Alarcón | Interview
Daniel Alarcón & Helen Gordon
‘The strangest parts of a story are not necessarily the fictional elements.’
Catherine Chung | Interview
Catherine Chung & Ollie Brock
‘I think my interest in mathematics was that of a writer: I was always trying to translate it back into a story.’
Night Thoughts
Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits responds to Helen Simpson’s ‘Night Thoughts’ in Granta 115: The F Word.
Mohsin Hamid | Podcast
Mohsin Hamid & John Freeman
The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman on The Granta Podcast.