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Hiromi Kawakami | Podcast
Hiromi Kawakami, Anne Meadows & Asa Yoneda
‘Looking back, I never was aware of feeling that close to death, but actually if you think about it, just living every day there is a very small but definitely existing chance of death, whatever you're doing, wherever you are.’
Rhyme and Reason
Katha Pollitt & Adam Gopnik
‘I write for people who like poetry. The people who don’t like poetry are on their own.’
Emily Berry | Interview
Emily Berry & Rachael Allen
‘I’m not even very comfortable being defined as a female poet. You never hear about ‘male poets’.’
John Barth | Podcast
John Barth
John Barth discusses discovering William Faulkner and Lawrence Sterne as a student, the parallels between writing and arranging music, what happened to postmodernism and waiting for the muse to call.
Han Dong | Interview
Han Dong & Philip Hand
‘Inflaming readers isn’t a good thing; I want to entice them.’
Taiye Selasi | Podcast
Taiye Selasi & Ellah Allfrey
Taiye Selasi talks about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.
Tao Lin | Interview
Tao Lin & Yuka Igarashi
Yuka Igarashi talks to Tao Lin about sense of place within the novel Taipei, his online presence and abstraction and metaphor in his writing.
Introducing Chicago
John Freeman
John Freeman introduces Granta’s new issue, celebrating the city of Chicago, a cultural and artistic hub and home to some of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers.
Bani Abidi | Interview
Bani Abidi & Saskia Vogel
‘I prefer to engage with things I may or may not find important at my own discretion, and feel a bit throttled by the world’s anxious curiosity about Pakistan.’
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.’
