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Colin Robinson | Podcast
Colin Robinson & Ted Hodgkinson
Colin Robinson reads from his memoir ‘Paddleball’ in Granta 122: Betrayal and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a game in New York, and how gym culture has changed the way we view our bodies.
Kamila Shamsie | Podcast
Kamila Shamsie & John Freeman
Granta Best of Young British novelist Kamila Shamsie talks to John Freeman about love, war and citizenship.
Bruce Chatwin | Interview
Bruce Chatwin & Michael Ignatieff
‘We have everything here, but I always wish I was somewhere else. It's a condition that makes one very difficult to live with.’
Michael Ignatieff interviews Bruce Chatwin.
Uwem Akpan | Interview
Uwem Akpan & Jeremiah Chamberlin
‘I just wanted to say something about how decent people struggle in difficult situations.’
Urvashi Butalia | Interview
Urvashi Butalia & Saskia Vogel
‘Feminist movements everywhere in the world are born of the particular political and economic realities of the places where they exist.’
Claire Vaye Watkins | Podcast
Claire Vaye Watkins & Ted Hodgkinson
‘These are stories that capture sudden, unexpected intimacies and unearth alternate family mythologies in seemingly innocuous objects.’
After the Affair
Maud Newton & Alexander Chee
‘Reading it, I thought, this must be what it was like to be his lover. To wait and wait for him to eventually say something to you, while he talked about everything else.’
John Burnside | Interview
John Burnside & Rachael Allen
‘Marx said the forest only echoes back what you shout into it – and this is very often true, perhaps more often than not, but I think the poet’s task is to suggest that it needn’t be.’
Andrés Neuman | Podcast
Andrés Neuman & Ted Hodgkinson
‘During the four hours they spent alone three times a week, Hans and Sophie alternated between books and bed, bed and books, exploring one another in words and reading one another’s bodies.’
Alison Moore | Podcast
Alison Moore & John Freeman
Alison Moore spoke to John Freeman about the experience of being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, why her characters often find themselves enclosed in a memory and writing short.
Jeffrey Eugenides on Adam Thirlwell
Jeffrey Eugenides
‘The playfulness of the language, the way the mandarin wit, line by line, consorts with grisly or louche material.’