Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fo...
Sep 05, 2024•28 min
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish , and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch , have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times , the Observer , the Guardian and the Huffington Post . She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon...
Aug 30, 2024•30 min
Shahnaz Habib is a writer and translator based in Brooklyn. She translates from her mother tongue, the south Indian language of Malayalam, and has translated two novels, Jasmine Days , winner of the 2018 JCB Prize, and Al Arabian Novel Factory . Airplane Mode , her first book, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 22, 2024•29 min
Harriet Constable is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker living in London. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, the Economist, and the BBC, and she is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center. Raised in a musical family, The Instrumentalist is her first novel. It has been selected as one of the Top 10 Debuts of 2024 by the Guardian. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 15, 2024•29 min
James Shapiro, who teaches English at Columbia University in New York, is author of several books, including 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (winner of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006 and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' in 2023), as well as Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? O n this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Aug 08, 2024•28 min
Clare Beams is the author of the novel The Illness Lesson , which was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,and the story collection We Show What We Have Learned , which won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016. She was a finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Garden . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 02, 2024•32 min
Ralf Webb is the author of Rotten Days in Late Summer , which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. His poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in Fantastic Man , Granta, the Guardian and the London Review of Books . He tutors in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny abouth his first nonfiction book Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America....
Jul 25, 2024•42 min
Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novel We Sinners , which received a Whiting Award and a Balcones Fiction Prize. To research The End of Drum-Time , her second novel, which she talks to Neil Denny about on this episode of Little Atoms, she spent six months with Sámi reindeer herders in Finland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 18, 2024•29 min
Adam Higginbotham is a British writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of Midnight In Chernobyl , and in today's episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 15, 2024•33 min
Rebecca Watson is an Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer 's ten best debut novelists of 2021. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian . In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is the author of the novel Little Scratch , and on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Ne...
Jul 11, 2024•29 min
Alan Murrin is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story, "The Wake," won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. His debut novel The Coast Road which he discussed with Neil Denny in this episode of Little Atoms was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction prize. Murrin is also the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fictio...
Jul 04, 2024•28 min
Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, "On (Not) Reading Anne Frank", has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Safekeep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 27, 2024•36 min
Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945 . On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 24, 2024•33 min
Julia Armfield's work has been published in Granta , The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow , a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020...
Jun 20, 2024•29 min
Noreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her memoir A Flat Place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 17, 2024•30 min
Clare Pollard is an award-winning poet and playwright based in London. She is the author of five poetry collections and the former Editor of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine . Her first novel, Delphi , was published by Fig Tree in 2022. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her second novel, The Modern Fairies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 13, 2024•31 min
Kevin Barry is the author of four novels and three story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker , Granta and elsewhere. His novel, Night Boat to Tangier ,was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by...
Jun 06, 2024•32 min
Rachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire . Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Cut, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and Tin House. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and non-binary writers and artists in San Francisco's Mission District. On today’s...
May 30, 2024•28 min
Ayana Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times best seller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica, and Rolling Stone . Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her long-awaited new novel The Unsettled . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 23, 2024•38 min
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 inf...
May 16, 2024•29 min
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
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
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
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
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
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 I...
Apr 08, 2024•28 min
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 ...
Apr 01, 2024•31 min
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....
Mar 26, 2024•30 min
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
Helen Oyeyemi talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Parasol Against The Axe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 15, 2024•22 min
