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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.’
In Conversation: Tishani Doshi and Karthika Naïr
Tishani Doshi & Karthika Naïr
‘I have never felt it as a poet, and that is why I’m doubly grateful to dance, for having experienced the loneliness and the terror of the empty stage, but also, to have had that live connection.’
Interview: Leslee Udwin
Leslee Udwin & Sonia Faleiro
‘It’s the barrel that rots the apples.’ Leslee Udwin talks to Sonia Faleiro about her film India's Daughter.
Anjan Sundaram and Lindsey Hilsum In Conversation
Lindsey Hilsum & Anjan Sundaram
‘Sometimes we don’t quite know what we’re seeing.’
Barbara Ras and Matthew Dickman In Conversation
Matthew Dickman & Barbara Ras
‘They happen organically. If a can of Pepsi shows up it’s because I was thinking about a can of Pepsi.’
S.J. Naudé and Ivan Vladislavić In Conversation
S.J. Naudé & Ivan Vladislavić
‘In rapidly transforming societies, writers may lose the space they’ve built their imaginative lives around.’
Nawzat Shamdin | Interview
Nawzat Shamdin & Larry Siems
‘I remain what I have always been, a human being first, and then an Iraqi. And then I am a writer.’