Yuka Igarashi
Yuka Igarashi is the former managing editor at Granta and was issue editor of Granta 127: Japan. She has taught fiction writing at various universities including Columbia and Parsons The New School for Design in New York.
Yuka Igarashi on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Ruth Ozeki | Podcast
Ruth Ozeki & Yuka Igarashi
‘And I never was quite sure who I was or who I was supposed to be.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Katherine Faw Morris | Interview
Katherine Faw Morris & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted her to be a pit bull.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Rattawut Lapcharoensap | Interview
Rattawut Lapcharoensap & Yuka Igarashi
‘Sometimes all a story needs is an interesting, clearly defined confusion.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
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.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Rebecca Solnit | Podcast
Rebecca Solnit & Yuka Igarashi
Rebecca Solnit discusses interweaving personal narratives with the lives of Mary Shelley and Che Guevara, paradoxes and Beyoncé.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
A.M. Homes | Podcast
A.M. Homes & Yuka Igarashi
Yuka Igarashi talks to A.M. Homes, recipient of the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction for the novel May We Be Forgiven.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
A.M. Homes | Interview
A.M. Homes & Yuka Igarashi
‘I don’t want to make suffering a positive (or negative); I very much want to acknowledge it without judgment.’
In Conversation | Issue 123
Ross Raisin | Podcast
Ross Raisin & Yuka Igarashi
Ross Raisin discusses how he evokes place and inhabits characters in his writing, the difference in his approaches to novels and short stories and his work on his forthcoming novel.
In Conversation | Issue 123
Ben Markovits | Podcast
Benjamin Markovits & Yuka Igarashi
Ben Markovits in conversation with Yuka Igarashi on minor-league baseball and his experiences as a writer.
In Conversation | Issue 123
Adam Thirlwell | Podcast
Adam Thirlwell & Yuka Igarashi
Adam Thirlwell speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about sex, history, translation, using tempo in novels and how his writing has evolved over the past decade.
Podcasts | Issue 122
André Aciman | Podcast
André Aciman & Yuka Igarashi
André Aciman reads from the work and speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about the story, the problem with unreliable narrators and modern poetry, and why self-deception and betrayal are good subjects for fiction.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 122
House Style: Editing Brazil
Yuka Igarashi
‘We’re freaks . . . Why are we still talking about typos?’
In Conversation | Issue 122
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.’
In Conversation | Issue 122
Léonie Hampton | Interview
Léonie Hampton & Yuka Igarashi
‘I see a dichotomy at play where I am trying to be truthful, but it’s hard to be direct.’
In Conversation | Issue 122
Rachel Seiffert | Podcast
Rachel Seiffert & Yuka Igarashi
Rachel Seiffert reads her work and talks to Granta about writing silences, the inescapability of history, the Troubles and learning to love her characters.
In Conversation | Issue 122
Rajesh Parameswaran | Interview
Rajesh Parameswaran & Yuka Igarashi
‘I could tell you that love and violence are basic forces interwoven through all of nature and human affairs, and that’s why I mix the two.’
In Conversation | Issue 122
Chinelo Okparanta | Interview
Chinelo Okparanta & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted to be sure to approach their resistance to Nnenna’s homosexuality from a practical perspective – one of fear, rather than one of hate.’
In Conversation | Issue 122
Don DeLillo | Interview
Don DeLillo & Yuka Igarashi
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 122
Novel Terrors
Yuka Igarashi
‘Violence and genius and terror and mysticism reside in equal parts in the so-called heroes and so-called villains. It wells up and pervades us. We swim in it.’
In Conversation | Issue 122
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
In Conversation | Issue 122
Kevin Brockmeier | Interview
Kevin Brockmeier & Yuka Igarashi
‘The great big real world of sensations and objects and other people’s minds is already deeply strange, but sometimes it takes a change of perspective for us to see it clearly.’
In Conversation | Issue 122
Jennifer Egan | Interview
Jennifer Egan & Yuka Igarashi
‘It wasn’t an experiment so much as a response to the need to find a way to embody the oddly shaped story I wanted to tell.’
