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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.’
Peter Hobbs | Interview
Peter Hobbs & Roy Robins
‘Illness is solitary, because suffering is something you always do alone.’
Ghost Species | Video
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane discusses his piece ‘Ghost Species’, published in Granta 102, and reflects on the future of nature writing.
Jonathan Raban | Interview
Jonathan Raban & Helen Gordon
‘The term ‘man of letters’ now seems hopelessly archaic, but I’d like to think there’s still life left in the notion of the writer who’s just a writer.’
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.’
Lana Asfour | Interview
Lana Asfour & Roy Robins
‘I do find in fiction the greatest freedom and therefore the greatest potential meaning.’
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.’
Charlotte Roche | Interview
Charlotte Roche & Philip Oltermann
‘I love that image. Me flying over Germany, throwing sex bombs into people’s minds.’
The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz
Evelyn Ch’ien
‘The world tends to give us pieces, and then in our imagination, because of our desire and because of our need, we make them whole.’
Gordon Burn | Interview
Gordon Burn & Simon Willis
‘The line between reality and its representation has become rivetingly porous.’
P.D. Mallamo | Interview
P. D. Mallamo & Roy Robins
‘Writing and reading in third-person present is like a high-speed drive through Nevada at two a.m.: incredibly invigorating and somewhat dangerous.’
