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Banyan
Robert Olen Butler
‘I wake and it’s dark and a woman is beside me, naked and small, and she is waking too and the room is still heavy with the incense she burned for her dead.’
Cynan Jones | Podcast
Cynan Jones & Ted Hodgkinson
Cynan Jones spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why he doesn’t want to be defined as a Welsh writer, the pleasures and challenges of writing short stories and novellas and writing about the growing pains of adolescence.
Melanie Rae Thon on Vinicius Jatobá
Vinicius Jatobá & Melanie Rae Thon
‘You see that the only thing that seems to move in its atmosphere is dust suspended against a fine thread of sunlight, that time itself sleeps lazily on the stupefied clocks.’
Justin Jin | Interview
Justin Jin & Francisco Vilhena
‘This disaster has been going on for decades. I want to protest against this as loudly as I can through photography.’
Interview with Theodore Solotaroff
Theodore Solotaroff & William Warner
‘People belong to literary movements which are abstractions rather than to ways of life which are concrete.’
Hannah Gersen | Interview
Hannah Gersen & Roy Robins
‘It’s very satisfying to write short stories because it can be a kind of game — to see how much can be revealed with just a few thousand words.’
Ben Okri | Interview
Ben Okri & Saskia Vogel
‘Whenever we use the word beauty or we feel it, it comes from a sense of something indefinable.’
Ben Lerner | Interview
Ben Lerner & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I have no memory of intending to write a novel.’
With the Invaders
James Meek
‘I wonder what George Bush had for dinner last night. His fork must have been clinking on the china just about the time when his marines were killing Omar's family.’
Paul Auster | Interview
Paul Auster
Paul Auster discusses his new novel ‘Invisible’, his writing process and the unsettling quality of narrative clarity.
Bill Morgan | Interview
Bill Morgan
‘We’ve fallen out of the habit of writing out our lives for one another, and instead we just pick up the phone.’