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Little Atoms

Neil Denny•littleatoms.com
Society & Culture
Fiction
Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny.

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Little Atoms 897 - Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature , Catapult , Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review ,among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. in this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Ministry of Time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 16, 2024•29 min

Little Atoms 896 - Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters

Orlando Whitfield graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2009. He started dealing art while still a student, and worked in and around the art market for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review and the White Review . On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his first book All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 09, 2024•28 min

Little Atoms 895 - Sarah Perry's Enlightenment

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Enlightenment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 02, 2024•30 min

Little Atoms 894 - Francesca De Tores' Saltblood

Francesca De Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels, published in more than 20 languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. On this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about Saltblood, an epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of the infamous female pirate Mary Read. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 29, 2024•29 min

Little Atoms 893 - Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments

Niamh Mulvey's first book, the short story collection Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador in June 2022. Her short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly , Banshee and Southword and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. In this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Amendments . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 22, 2024•32 min

Little Atoms 892 - Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. In today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Hagstone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 15, 2024•26 min

Little Atoms 891 - Peter Pomerantsev's How To Win An Information War

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second, This is Not Propaganda, won the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize. His essay on authoritarian propaganda, 'Memory in the Age of Impunity', won the 2022 European Pres...

Apr 08, 2024•28 min

Little Atoms 890 - Stuart Turton's The Last Murder At The End Of The World

Stuart Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in the UK and US combined. The Devil and the Dark Wate r, his follow up, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fictio...

Apr 01, 2024•31 min

Little Atoms 889 - Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

Michael Donkor was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. His first novel, Hold, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prizes. He is a frequent contributor to outlets including the Guardian , the TLS and the Independent . Michael talks to Neil Denny his latest novel Grow Where They Fall . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 26, 2024•30 min

Little Atoms 888 - Lauren Oyler's No Judgement

Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel Fake Accounts . Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the New Yorker , the New York Times, the London Review of Books , Harper's , the Guardian and other publications. She lives in Berlin. on today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of essays No Judgement: On Being Critical . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 19, 2024•29 min

Little Atoms 885 - Rachel Cockerell's Melting Point

Rachel Cockerell talks to Neil Denny about her first work of non-fiction Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 05, 2024•28 min

Little Atoms 884 - Hannah Durkin's Survivors

Dr. Hannah Durkin talks to Neil Denny about her new book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 27, 2024•26 min

Little Atoms 869 - Beto O'Rourke's We've Got To Try

Former US Congressman and Democratic presidential nomination candidate Beto O'Rourke talks to Neil Denny about his book We've Got To Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 24, 2023•29 min

Little Atoms 868 - Ed Gillett's Party Lines

Ed Gillett talks to Neil Denny about his new book Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 21, 2023•45 min
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