Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her books include The Eichmann Trial, Denial: holocaust history on trial (a National Jewish Book Award-winner), Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory, and Beyond Belief: the American press and the coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. She lives in Atlanta. Her latest book is Antisemitism Here and Now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 20, 2019•42 min
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Kristen R. Ghodsee was travelling in Europe, and spent the summer of 1990 witnessing first-hand the initial hope and euphoria that followed the sudden and unexpected collapse of state socialism in the former Eastern Bloc. The political and economic chaos that followed inspired Ghodsee to pursue an academic career studying this upheaval, focusing on how ordinary people’s lives – and women’s particularly – changed when state socialism gave way to capitalism. For ...
Feb 12, 2019•36 min
Georgina Harding is the author of three previous novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave , The Spy Game and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 201 2 . Her first book was a word of non-fiction, In Another Europe , recording a journey she made across Romania in 1988 during the worst times of the Ceausescu regime. It was followed by Tranquebar : A Season in South India , which documented the lives of the people in a small fishing village on the Co...
Feb 05, 2019•28 min
Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including Timekeepers , A Notable Woman (as editor) , To the Letter , On the Map , Just My Type and Mauve . His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence , won the Somerset Maugham prize. His latest book is In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 29, 2019•32 min
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh . He is a contributing editor at the New Republic , an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times . His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016 , The New York Times Magazine , Slate , Guernica , and Tin House , among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. His latest book is the essay collection How to Write an Auto...
Jan 22, 2019•27 min
Adam Weymouth's work has been published by a wide variety of outlets including the Guardian, the Atlantic and the New Internationalist. His interest in the relationship between humans and the world around them has led him to write on issues of climate change and environmentalism, and most recently, to the Yukon river and the stories of the communities living on its banks. He lives on a 100-year-old Dutch barge on the River Lea in London. His first book, Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journ...
Jan 15, 2019•27 min
Thea Lim’s novel An Ocean of Minutes is out now from Quercus/Hachette in the UK, Viking/Penguin Random House in Canada, and Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster in the US. Her writing has been published by the Paris Review, the Guardian, Salon, the National Post, LitHub, Electric Literature, the Millions, the Southampton Review, GRIST and others. She has received multiple awards and fellowships for her work, including artists’ grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Cou...
Jan 08, 2019•32 min
To see in the New Year, here's a repeat of our Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh from August. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue , a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World . Her stories have been published in The Paris Review , The New Yorker , and Granta , and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize,...
Jan 01, 2019•29 min
For Christmas Day, here's a repeat of our interview from June 2018 with Adam Kay. Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film, including Mitchell & Webb and Very British Problems . He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book This Is Going To Hurt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 25, 2018•38 min
David Frye is a professor and historian, whose research has taken him around the world and involved him in numerous archaeological digs since receiving his PhD from Duke University. He has published extensively in international academic journals. He is the author of Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood & Brick . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 18, 2018•29 min
Jeff Jackson is the author of Mira Corpora , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica , Vice , and The Collagist , and five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award–winning Collapsable Giraffe theater company in New York City. His latest novel is Destroy All Monsters . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 11, 2018•31 min
This week Padraig Reidy talks to Paul Ewen. Paul Ewen is a New Zealand writer based in south London. His work has appeared in the British Council's New Writing anthology, the Guardian, the TES, Tank, and Five Dials. Paul's first novel, Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author , was published by Galley Beggar Press in 2014. It went on to appear on numerous Books Of The Year lists, won a Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and was described as "inspired" by the Sunday Times, whose reviewer also c...
Dec 04, 2018•29 min
R. O. Kwon is the author of the novel The Incendiaries . Her writing is published in The Guardian , Vice , BuzzFeed , Time , Noon , Electric Literature , Playboy , and elsewhere. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States. Hosted on Acas...
Nov 27, 2018•22 min
Thomas Page McBee was ‘masculinity expert’ for Vice and the first trans man ever to box at Madison Square Garden. His essays and reportage have appeared in the New York Times , Playboy , Glamour and Salon . He is the author of Man Alive , and most recently Amateur: A True Story About What Makes A Man . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 20, 2018•30 min
Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writi...
Nov 13, 2018•28 min
Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror , was described as ‘beautifully written . . . immersive . . . captivating’ by the Guardian . As Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy, he created the flagship ‘Writing a Novel’ six-month course in 2009 and since then has helped hundreds of writers find their voice. He is also the author of Writing a Novel . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 06, 2018•29 min
Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World , and The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste , which was judged one of the best books of 2008 by the Economist, and one of the top ten science books of the same year by the American Library Association, and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that brings you Ninety Percent of Everything , which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and won the Mountbatten Literature Aw...
Oct 30, 2018•33 min
Sarah Moss is the author of six novels and a memoir of her year living in Iceland, Names for the Sea , shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her novels are Cold Earth , Night Waking (Fiction Uncovered Award), Bodies of Light (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), Signs for Lost Children (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and The Tidal Zone (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize). Her latest novel is Ghost Wall . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 22, 2018•27 min
Jonathan Ames is the author of nine books including The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir! , and You Were Never Really Here , all published by Pushkin Press. He also created the hit HBO comedy Bored to Death , starring Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and Jason Schwartzman, and Blunt Talk , starring Patrick Stewart. He has fought in two amateur boxing matches as "The Herring Wonder". He lives in Los Angeles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 18, 2018•38 min
Ivy Pochoda is a novelist and writer, previously a world ranked squash player. Her novel Visitation Street was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She has written for a number of outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Huffington Post. She teaches creative writing at the Lamp Arts Studio in Skid Row, and her latest novel is Wonder Valley . Hosted ...
Oct 15, 2018•29 min
Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers , which won the Governor General's Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He also is the author of Ablutions , which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and Undermajordomo Minor . The Sisters Brothers is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard ( Rust and Bone, A Prophet ), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. His latest novel is French Exit . Ho...
Oct 11, 2018•24 min
Michael Redhill is the author of nine novels including Consolation , longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Martin Sloane , a finalist for the Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious book award which he won with Bellevue Square . He's written a novel for young adults, four collections of poetry and two plays, including the internationally celebrated Goodness . He also writes a series of crime novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe, one of which, The Calling , was made in to a feature film starr...
Oct 08, 2018•31 min
Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme INSIDE SCIENCE and THE CURIOUS CASES OF RUTHERFORD & FRY with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author CREATION, which was shortli...
Oct 01, 2018•33 min
Jean Hannah Edelstein is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. She writes regularly for numerous outlets including The Guardian and The Pool , and a weekly TinyLetter, which Vogue said ‘pops up in your inbox like lucid dreaming.’ She also writes all of the marketing emails for Spotify, so you’ve probably deleted her work. Jean is the author of the memoir This Really Isn’t About You . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 24, 2018•30 min
Sophie Mackintosh won the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist Short Story competition, and has been published in Granta magazine and TANK magazine among others. her debut novel The Water Cure was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 20, 2018•24 min
Nell Stevens has a First in English and Creative Writing from Warwick, after which she went on to study Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard, to receive a Marcia Trimble Fellowship and the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award for her MFA in Fiction at Boston University, and to complete a Ph.D. in Victorian literature at King’s College London. Previously the author of the memoir Bleaker House , her latest book is Mrs Gaskell and Me . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Sep 17, 2018•27 min
Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to do an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her first novel was The Still Point , which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and won the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and her second was Orkney , which won a 2014 Somerset Maugham Award. Her latest novel is Painter to the King . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 13, 2018•30 min
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa , Cleaver , A Season with Verona and Teach Us to Sit Still . He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, and writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New Yor...
Sep 10, 2018•28 min
Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published four novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her latest novel is Women Talking . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 06, 2018•32 min
Lauren Groff is the author of three New York Times bestselling novels – Fates and Furies (named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015), The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia – as well as the story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Groff’s fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los...
Sep 03, 2018•33 min
