Nathaniel Rich is the author of the novels Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor’s Tongue . His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s , The Virginia Quarterly Review , and VICE , among other publications. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Atlantic . Rich lives with his wife and son in New Orleans. His latest book is Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Jun 10, 2019•31 min
Pete Brown is a British author, journalist, blogger and broadcaster specialising in food and drink, especially the fun parts like beer and cider. His broad, fresh approach takes in social history, cultural commentary, travel writing, personal discovery and natural history, and his words are always delivered with the warmth and wit you'd expect from a great night down the pub. He writes for newspapers and magazines around the world and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Food Programme. He ...
Jun 06, 2019•34 min
Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she wrote for the Economist as a staff writer. Her debut novel is The Farm . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 03, 2019•35 min
Born in 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed `unacceptable democratic tendencies'. He came to the United Kingdom, where he took a job with the BBC World Service. His works are banned in Uzbekistan. Several of his Russian-original novels have been published in English translation, including The Railway , The Dead Lake , which was long listed for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize...
May 27, 2019•30 min
Andrea Lawlor lives in Western Massachusetts and teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College. Lawlor is a fiction editor for Fence and the author of a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016). Paul Takes The Form of A Mortal Girl is their debut novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 23, 2019•37 min
Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg born in Washington, DC. Through her work, she explores her interest in identity and otherness, the opportunities and traps of hindsight and hope, and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. An early draft of of her debut novel Cygnet was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian Women. She lives and works between London and Berlin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 20, 2019•24 min
Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood) and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews and Climbing Days . He has written for the Guardian , Harper’s Bazaar , Caught by the River , Monocle and the Quietus . He is an RLF Fellow at Bristol University. Dan's latest book is Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 16, 2019•32 min
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Children of Jocasta and The Amber Fury , which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a non-fiction book about Ancient History, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life . She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics . In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. Her latest novel i...
May 13, 2019•40 min
Iain Reid is the author of two critically acclaimed, award-winning books of nonfiction. His internationally bestselling debut novel, I’m Thinking of Ending Things , has been published in more than twenty countries. Oscar-winner Charlie Kaufman is writing and directing a film based on the novel, which Reid will co-produce. His second novel, Foe , was an instant bestseller and feature film rights have been acquired by Anonymous Content, with Reid set to executive produce. Hosted on Acast. See acas...
May 09, 2019•31 min
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park , and a collection of stories, The Informers . Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and The Informers have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, White , was published in 2019. He is the host of the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon. He lives in Los Angeles. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
May 06, 2019•30 min
Bev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for many years. She currently works as an organisational consultant in mental health and other services. A Good Enough Mother is her debut novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 02, 2019•30 min
Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA , a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel, I Hate the Internet , was a bestseller everywhere, doing especially well in Serbia. His second novel, The Future Won't Be Long , wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but was published in the United States by a company that printed propaganda for Nazi Germany. His latest novel is Only Americans Burn ...
Apr 29, 2019•48 min
Isabella Hammad was born in London. She won the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story 'Mr. Can’aan'. Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions and the Paris Review. The Parisian is her first novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 25, 2019•26 min
Will Ashon is the author of Strange Labyrinth (Granta, 2017) and two novels. He previously ran BIG DADA records where his artists included Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Kate Tempest and Diplo. Will's latest book is Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 22, 2019•36 min
Temi Oh graduated from King’s College London in 2015 with a BSci in Neuroscience. While at KCL, Temi founded and ran a book-club called “Neuroscience-fiction”, where she led discussions about science-fiction books which focus on the brain. In 2016, she received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 18, 2019•29 min
Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew up in the Midwestern United States and has a BS in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol (UK), and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. At age 31, Steve is widely recognized as one of the leading palaeontologists of his generation. He has written nearly 90 pee...
Apr 15, 2019•31 min
A K Benjamin is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, specialising in diagnostics and acute rehab. Previously he was a screenwriter, spent two years as a contemplative monk and has worked at a number of NGOs, with homeless addicts, with gangs and with children with acquired and congenital neurological conditions. He no longer lives in the UK. A K Benjamin is not his real name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 11, 2019•27 min
Hanna Jameson wrote her first book at the age of seventeen. Paul Rees of Q Magazine described her as writing like 'an angel on speed'. She has worked for the NHS and travelled the USA, Japan and Europe, developing a particular interest in the US, which led to her studying for a BA in American History. The Last is her fourth novel and her first for Penguin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 08, 2019•28 min
Adam Foulds most recent books are In the Wolf's Mouth ; The Quickening Maze , which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature; and The Broken Word , which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His latest book is Dream Sequence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 04, 2019•30 min
Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me , his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the Big Issue and High Life and often appears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging write...
Apr 01, 2019•31 min
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears , was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by short story collection, Children's Children , and a flash fiction anthology Postcard Stories . In 2016 she won the Harper's Bazaar short story competition and was shortlisted for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. The Fire Starters is her second novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 29, 2019•31 min
Luke Turner is a writer and editor based in London. He co-founded the influential music website The Quietus where he runs a regular podcast and radio show. He has contributed to the Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Vice, NME, Q Mojo, Monocle, Nowness and Somesuch Stories , among other publications. Out of the Woods is his first book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 26, 2019•28 min
Lewis Dartnell is a Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster. He has won several awards for his science writing, and contributes to the Guardian, the Times and the New Scientist. He has also written for television and appeared on BBC Horizon, Sky News, Wonders of the Universe, Stargazing Live, and the Sky At Night. His previous books include the bestseller The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch and his latest book is Origins: How The Earth Made Us . Hoste...
Mar 22, 2019•32 min
Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-English household in London, where she still lives. She has a BA in English from Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature at UCL. Yara is a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid, the only refuge run for and by Latin American women in the UK and has also given workshops on gender and power to teenage girls with feminist organisation Fearless Futures. Yara's writing has been published in Litro , and the UCL Publishers' Prize, and she received a Specia...
Mar 19, 2019•28 min
Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, cultural theorist and lecturer based in London. He is the author of the books Destroy All Monsters , Welcome To Mars , and The Bright Labyrinth. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies throughout the world, and he has written and presented programs for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, NPS in the Netherlands, ABC Australia, and Resonance 104.4FM. His latest book is The Space Oracle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
Mar 15, 2019•34 min
Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1982. She grew up in Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of four previous books, most recently the highly acclaimed The Shadow of the Crescent Moon which was longlisted in 2014 for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Runaways . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 12, 2019•34 min
Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers , which has been translated into twenty languages worldwide, and been made into a stage play starring Cillian Murphy. His latest book is Lanny , the story of a young boy, an elderly artist, and a mysterious spirit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 08, 2019•47 min
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books , where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker . He has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure , Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour , and Capital , and two works of non-fiction: Family Romance , a memoir; and Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay , about the global ...
Mar 05, 2019•30 min
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and commentator. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times , The Guardian , Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine , and her novels include Women Who Blow On Knots and The Time of Mute Swans. Her latest novel is How To Lose A Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 01, 2019•32 min
Dr Julia Shaw is a scientist in the Department of Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her academic work, teaching and role as an expert witness have focused on different ways of understanding criminal behaviour. Dr Shaw has consulted as an expert on criminal cases, delivered police-training and military workshops, and has evaluated offender diversion programs. She is also the co-founder of Spot, a start-up that helps employees report workplace harassment and discrimination, and employ...
Feb 26, 2019•34 min
