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Ablutions
Patrick deWitt
An animated video including a reading from Patrick deWitt’s novel Ablutions.
Interview: Yann Faucher
Yann Faucher & Emily Greenhouse
‘I use my body as a material, in an attempt to make it impersonal for the viewer. It’s easy to be your own subject/model, but my primary aim is not narcissism.’
Nicola Barker | Interview
Nicola Barker & Yuka Igarashi
‘I’ve always thought of myself as someone who writes outside of the dominant culture; an outsider looking in.’
Robert Macfarlane | Podcast
Robert Macfarlane & Rachael Allen
‘When you're dealing with a geological context, its age exceeds your knowing, exceeds your comprehension. Deep time is dizzying and vertiginous.’
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.’
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.’
Dinaw Mengestu | Interview
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu talks about how he came to write ‘Big Money’, his contribution to Granta 108, his forthcoming novel, his relationship with his hometown, Chicago, and his inspiration as a writer.
The National Language
Uzma Aslam Khan & Aamer Hussein
‘It gives me two languages to play with in my writing. It also gives me two languages to love and curse in.’
Nadia Shira Cohen | Interview
Nadia Shira Cohen & Michael Salu
‘What I do hope is to be able to tell people’s stories, people who might otherwise have been forgotten by society, locally and otherwise.’
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.’
Kevin Brockmeier on Leandro Sarmatz
Leandro Sarmatz & Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin Brockmeier introduces Granta Best of Young Brazilian Novelist Leandro Sarmatz.