Granta Sun, 03 May 2026 13:29:11 -0400 http://www.granta.com/ en © 2026 Granta yes 9646f98f-066c-54cd-8389-7cf2eb2e475e Granta Magazine episodic false From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. Our podcasts bring you readings and in-depth discussions with highly acclaimed authors and rising stars from the quarterly magazine of new writing. ]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Granta Magazine https://storage.buzzsprout.com/fo9ysfh7m2rmhtlv67yjctqbj1nf?.jpg Granta http://www.granta.com/ Helle Helle, The Granta Podcast Helle Helle, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta podcast, we are joined by the Danish author Helle Helle, author of multiple novels and two collections. Her work has been translated into twenty-four languages and her novel they was published in English this year, translated by Martin Aitken. Six short stories by Helle Helle will be appearing in our forthcoming issue, Granta 175: Scandinavia.

We discuss writing about familiar places, Raymond Carver and the process of being translated.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is a senior editor at Granta.


Referenced in this episode:

  • The short stories of Raymond Carver. 
  • Short Cuts (1993), a film by Robert Altman, which adapted the nine short stories by Carver.
  • Short fiction from the Norwegian writer Kjell Askildsen. A translated collection of his writings, Everything Like Before (2021), was published by Archipelago. 
  • Writing by the Danish writer Herman Bang. You can find his short fiction in the translated anthology Some Would Call This Living (2022).
]]> In this episode of the Granta podcast, we are joined by the Danish author Helle Helle, author of multiple novels and two collections. Her work has been translated into twenty-four languages and her novel they was published in English this year, translated by Martin Aitken. Six short stories by Helle Helle will be appearing in our forthcoming issue, Granta 175: Scandinavia.

We discuss writing about familiar places, Raymond Carver and the process of being translated.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is a senior editor at Granta.


Referenced in this episode:

  • The short stories of Raymond Carver. 
  • Short Cuts (1993), a film by Robert Altman, which adapted the nine short stories by Carver.
  • Short fiction from the Norwegian writer Kjell Askildsen. A translated collection of his writings, Everything Like Before (2021), was published by Archipelago. 
  • Writing by the Danish writer Herman Bang. You can find his short fiction in the translated anthology Some Would Call This Living (2022).
]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-18950759 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0100 3054 full false Christopher Bollas, The Granta Podcast Christopher Bollas, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta podcast, we speak with Christopher Bollas, a leading figure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and author of the forthcoming Essential Aloneness and Streams of Consciousness. A wide-ranging interview about his life and work appeared in Granta 174: Therapy.

In this further conversation, Bollas reflects on the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, the significance of daydreams, and whether analysis can speak to the great crises of our time.


Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta.

]]> In this episode of the Granta podcast, we speak with Christopher Bollas, a leading figure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and author of the forthcoming Essential Aloneness and Streams of Consciousness. A wide-ranging interview about his life and work appeared in Granta 174: Therapy.

In this further conversation, Bollas reflects on the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, the significance of daydreams, and whether analysis can speak to the great crises of our time.


Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-18801178 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 2566 full false Sujatha Gidla, The Granta Podcast Sujatha Gidla, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta podcast, we speak to Sujatha Gidla, author of Ants Among Elephants: an Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India. Gidla’s essay, ‘I Am My Mother’s Older Brother’, about dementia and caring for her mother, appeared in Granta 173: India.

We discuss the history of the caste system, writing a political memoir, and Gidla’s experiences as a train conductor for the New York City Subway.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta.  


]]> In this episode of the Granta podcast, we speak to Sujatha Gidla, author of Ants Among Elephants: an Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India. Gidla’s essay, ‘I Am My Mother’s Older Brother’, about dementia and caring for her mother, appeared in Granta 173: India.

We discuss the history of the caste system, writing a political memoir, and Gidla’s experiences as a train conductor for the New York City Subway.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta.  


]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-18662177 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000 2035 full false Karan Mahajan, The Granta Podcast Karan Mahajan, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Karan Mahajan, author of Family Planning, The Association of Small Bombs and the forthcoming The Complex. Mahajan’s essay ‘The Killing of a Canadian Sikh’, on an extrajudicial killing in Surrey, Canada, appeared in Granta 173: India.

We discuss his forthcoming novel, the Khalistani separatist movement, Salman Rushdie’s influence and the relationship between India and the US.



Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Karan Mahajan, author of Family Planning, The Association of Small Bombs and the forthcoming The Complex. Mahajan’s essay ‘The Killing of a Canadian Sikh’, on an extrajudicial killing in Surrey, Canada, appeared in Granta 173: India.

We discuss his forthcoming novel, the Khalistani separatist movement, Salman Rushdie’s influence and the relationship between India and the US.



Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-18385160 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000 2945 full false Zoe Dubno, The Granta Podcast Zoe Dubno, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Zoe Dubno, author of Happiness and Love (2025), whose short story ‘The Full Package’ appeared in Granta 166: Generations.

We discuss her novel, Happiness and Love, its relationship to Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, and the differences between homage and appropriation.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Zoe Dubno, author of Happiness and Love (2025), whose short story ‘The Full Package’ appeared in Granta 166: Generations.

We discuss her novel, Happiness and Love, its relationship to Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, and the differences between homage and appropriation.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-18190993 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 2122 full false Guadalupe Nettel, The Granta Podcast Guadalupe Nettel, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Guadalupe Nettel, author of four novels and three collections of short stories, including the most recent collection The Accidentals.

We discuss her novel, Still Born, as well as her stories, ‘The Wanderers’, ‘Divination’ and ‘Bonsai’, as well as her approach to the politics of motherhood, realism and exile in her writing.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Guadalupe Nettel, author of four novels and three collections of short stories, including the most recent collection The Accidentals.

We discuss her novel, Still Born, as well as her stories, ‘The Wanderers’, ‘Divination’ and ‘Bonsai’, as well as her approach to the politics of motherhood, realism and exile in her writing.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-17945261 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:00:00 +0100 2921 full false Diane Williams, The Granta Podcast Diane Williams, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Diane Williams, author of eleven books of fiction, including the short story collection I Hear You’re Rich.

We discuss the four short stories Diane Williams contributed to the summer issue, Granta 172: Badlands, as well as her various collections, her love of surprise in fiction and the porosity between her identity as a writer and an editor.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Diane Williams, author of eleven books of fiction, including the short story collection I Hear You’re Rich.

We discuss the four short stories Diane Williams contributed to the summer issue, Granta 172: Badlands, as well as her various collections, her love of surprise in fiction and the porosity between her identity as a writer and an editor.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-17598567 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0100 2634 full false Tao Lin, The Granta Podcast Tao Lin, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Tao Lin, the author of ten books, including Leave Society and Taipei.

We discuss two of Tao Lin’s recent essays, ‘My Spiritual Evolution’, and ‘Gian’, which appeared in Granta 171: Dead Friends, as well as the effects of psychedelics and the possibilities of reincarnation.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Tao Lin, the author of ten books, including Leave Society and Taipei.

We discuss two of Tao Lin’s recent essays, ‘My Spiritual Evolution’, and ‘Gian’, which appeared in Granta 171: Dead Friends, as well as the effects of psychedelics and the possibilities of reincarnation.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-17489090 Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0100 3259 full false Susie Boyt, The Granta Podcast Susie Boyt, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Susie Boyt, the author of seven novels, most recently Loved and Missed, and the memoir My Judy Garland Life.

We discuss Susie Boyt’s short story, ‘All Being Well’, from Granta 171: Dead Friends, and consider the function of ghosts, Henry James, and how to be mourned.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Susie Boyt, the author of seven novels, most recently Loved and Missed, and the memoir My Judy Garland Life.

We discuss Susie Boyt’s short story, ‘All Being Well’, from Granta 171: Dead Friends, and consider the function of ghosts, Henry James, and how to be mourned.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-17247138 Thu, 29 May 2025 15:00:00 +0100 2718 full false Nico Walker, The Granta Podcast Nico Walker, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Nico Walker, author of the novel Cherry. 

We discuss Nico Walker’s essay ‘Mucker Play’, published in Granta 170: Winners, which considers American football as a reflection of the country’s violence, the intimate relationship between the military and sport, and how athletes cultivate their public image, from Deion Sanders to Jim Thorpe.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2025. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Nico Walker, author of the novel Cherry. 

We discuss Nico Walker’s essay ‘Mucker Play’, published in Granta 170: Winners, which considers American football as a reflection of the country’s violence, the intimate relationship between the military and sport, and how athletes cultivate their public image, from Deion Sanders to Jim Thorpe.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2025. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-16889294 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0100 2387 full false Declan Ryan, The Granta Podcast Declan Ryan, The Granta Podcast Granta 170: Winners is out this week. In this episode, we speak to Declan Ryan about his essay on the British heavyweight boxing today, ‘The Hurt Business’, which appears in the magazine's new sports issue. 

You can read the essay discussed in this episode here. 

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Declan Ryan is the author of Crisis Actor, a poetry collection published with Faber in 2023. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 



]]> Granta 170: Winners is out this week. In this episode, we speak to Declan Ryan about his essay on the British heavyweight boxing today, ‘The Hurt Business’, which appears in the magazine's new sports issue. 

You can read the essay discussed in this episode here. 

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Declan Ryan is the author of Crisis Actor, a poetry collection published with Faber in 2023. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 



]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-16709978 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000 3133 full false Wang Xiaoshuai, The Granta Podcast Wang Xiaoshuai, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the film director Wang Xiaoshuai, known for the films Beijing Bicycle (2001) and So Long, My Son (2019).

We discuss Wang Xiaoshuai’s thoughts on the porosity between literature and cinema, and the challenges facing independent filmmakers today.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the film director Wang Xiaoshuai, known for the films Beijing Bicycle (2001) and So Long, My Son (2019).

We discuss Wang Xiaoshuai’s thoughts on the porosity between literature and cinema, and the challenges facing independent filmmakers today.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-16532299 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000 2664 full false Allen Bratton, The Granta Podcast Allen Bratton, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Allen Bratton, whose short stories Barbarism and Honeymoon have been published online at granta.com. His debut novel Henry Henry was published in 2024.

We discuss Shakespearean adaptations, the fine line between humour and cruelty and the legacy of the British aristocracy.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2025.

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta.

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Allen Bratton, whose short stories Barbarism and Honeymoon have been published online at granta.com. His debut novel Henry Henry was published in 2024.

We discuss Shakespearean adaptations, the fine line between humour and cruelty and the legacy of the British aristocracy.


Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2025.

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-16193910 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000 2865 full false Alan Hollinghurst, The Granta Podcast Alan Hollinghurst, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Alan Hollinghurst, author of seven novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty and Our Evenings, which was published in 2024. 

We discuss his new novel, writing from the outsider's perspective and cataloguing the chapters of queer life from the mid-century to now.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Alan Hollinghurst, author of seven novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty and Our Evenings, which was published in 2024. 

We discuss his new novel, writing from the outsider's perspective and cataloguing the chapters of queer life from the mid-century to now.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-15936134 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0100 2536 full false Rachel Kushner, The Granta Podcast Rachel Kushner, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and essayist Rachel Kushner, author of the books The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba and The Hard Crowd. Her latest novel, Creation Lake, will be published in September 2024.

We discuss her story, ‘The True Depth of a Cave’, which appeared in Granta 167: Extraction, as well as the mysteries of prehistory and the variance between abstract and mimetic art in fiction.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and essayist Rachel Kushner, author of the books The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba and The Hard Crowd. Her latest novel, Creation Lake, will be published in September 2024.

We discuss her story, ‘The True Depth of a Cave’, which appeared in Granta 167: Extraction, as well as the mysteries of prehistory and the variance between abstract and mimetic art in fiction.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-15700209 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0100 2902 full false Benjamin Kunkel, The Granta Podcast Benjamin Kunkel, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta podcast we speak to the novelist and journalist Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision (2005) and co-founder of the journal n+1.

We discuss his short story ‘Prairie Dogs’ (Granta 167: Extraction), his return to writing fiction, involuntarily becoming a ‘Marxist public intellectual’ and being politicised by literature.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta podcast we speak to the novelist and journalist Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision (2005) and co-founder of the journal n+1.

We discuss his short story ‘Prairie Dogs’ (Granta 167: Extraction), his return to writing fiction, involuntarily becoming a ‘Marxist public intellectual’ and being politicised by literature.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-15508150 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0100 2860 full false Sheila Heti, The Granta Podcast Sheila Heti, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Sheila Heti, author of the books How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood and Pure Colour. Her latest book, Alphabetical Diaries, was published in 2024.

We discuss her new book, along with her interview with the academic Phyllis Rose that appeared in Granta 166: Generations. You can find all of Heti's contributions to the magazine here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Sheila Heti, author of the books How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood and Pure Colour. Her latest book, Alphabetical Diaries, was published in 2024.

We discuss her new book, along with her interview with the academic Phyllis Rose that appeared in Granta 166: Generations. You can find all of Heti's contributions to the magazine here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review. 

Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-15322526 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0100 2772 full false Andrew O’Hagan, The Granta Podcast Andrew O’Hagan, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and journalist Andrew O’Hagan, author of seven novels and several books of non-fiction.

We discuss his short story, ‘The Sensitivity Reader’ (Granta 166: Generations), and the new novel Caledonian Road (2024), both of which explore the value of challenging the established narrative as a journalist, and the capacity for fiction to offer different forms of truth. 

You can read ‘The Sensitivity Reader’ here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2024.

Josie Mitchell is online editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and journalist Andrew O’Hagan, author of seven novels and several books of non-fiction.

We discuss his short story, ‘The Sensitivity Reader’ (Granta 166: Generations), and the new novel Caledonian Road (2024), both of which explore the value of challenging the established narrative as a journalist, and the capacity for fiction to offer different forms of truth. 

You can read ‘The Sensitivity Reader’ here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2024.

Josie Mitchell is online editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-15182825 Fri, 31 May 2024 12:00:00 +0100 2962 full false Lauren Oyler, The Granta Podcast Lauren Oyler, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and critic Lauren Oyler, author of No Judgement (2024) and Fake Accounts (2024), about living in Berlin, the boundary between our private and public selves, and the trajectory of autofiction.

We also discuss Oyler’s essay, ‘Last Week at Marienbad’, which appeared in Granta 165: Deutschland.

You can read ‘Last Week at Marienbad’ here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2024.

Josie Mitchell is online editor at Granta. 

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and critic Lauren Oyler, author of No Judgement (2024) and Fake Accounts (2024), about living in Berlin, the boundary between our private and public selves, and the trajectory of autofiction.

We also discuss Oyler’s essay, ‘Last Week at Marienbad’, which appeared in Granta 165: Deutschland.

You can read ‘Last Week at Marienbad’ here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2024.

Josie Mitchell is online editor at Granta. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-14982011 Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0100 2683 full false Brandon Taylor, The Granta Podcast Brandon Taylor, The Granta Podcast In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (2020) and The Late Americans (2023), about naturalism, the future of fiction, and the connection between Émile Zola and The Sims.

We also discuss Taylor’s short story ‘Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre’, which appeared in Granta 166: Generations.

You can read ‘Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre’ here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

]]> In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (2020) and The Late Americans (2023), about naturalism, the future of fiction, and the connection between Émile Zola and The Sims.

We also discuss Taylor’s short story ‘Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre’, which appeared in Granta 166: Generations.

You can read ‘Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre’ here.

Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-14743929 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000 3046 full false Jamaica Kincaid, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 111 Jamaica Kincaid, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 111 In 2022 Jamaica Kincaid spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about childhood, the concept of memory and her early love of Paradise Lost.

Jamaica Kincaid grew up on the island of Antigua. She began writing for the New Yorker and went on to publish many books, including the novel Annie John and the collection of stories At the Bottom of the River. A number of her books have recently been reissued, or are forthcoming, from Picador in the UK.


]]> In 2022 Jamaica Kincaid spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about childhood, the concept of memory and her early love of Paradise Lost.

Jamaica Kincaid grew up on the island of Antigua. She began writing for the New Yorker and went on to publish many books, including the novel Annie John and the collection of stories At the Bottom of the River. A number of her books have recently been reissued, or are forthcoming, from Picador in the UK.


]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-12879255 Fri, 19 May 2023 09:00:00 +0100 1693 full false Claire-Louise Bennett, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 110 Claire-Louise Bennett, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 110 Last year Claire-Louise Bennett and editor Josie Mitchell talked about rereading, resisting homogenisation and committing to the process of unravelling.

Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, a collection of short stories, and the 2021 novel Checkout 19.

Read an extract of Bennett's novel here.

]]> Last year Claire-Louise Bennett and editor Josie Mitchell talked about rereading, resisting homogenisation and committing to the process of unravelling.

Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, a collection of short stories, and the 2021 novel Checkout 19.

Read an extract of Bennett's novel here.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-12790010 Fri, 05 May 2023 15:00:00 +0100 2783 full false Lynne Tillman, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 109 Lynne Tillman, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 109 In 2022 Lynne Tillman and editor Josie Mitchell discussed the afterlife of novels, haunted houses and the sexual revolution. 

Lynne Tillman is the author of many books, including the 2006 novel American Genius: A Comedy and the 2014 essay collection, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?  Two of Tillman’s early works are now published in the UK by Peninsula Press: Weird Fucks and Haunted Houses.

Read an excerpt from Tillman’s memoir Mothercare here.

 


]]> In 2022 Lynne Tillman and editor Josie Mitchell discussed the afterlife of novels, haunted houses and the sexual revolution. 

Lynne Tillman is the author of many books, including the 2006 novel American Genius: A Comedy and the 2014 essay collection, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?  Two of Tillman’s early works are now published in the UK by Peninsula Press: Weird Fucks and Haunted Houses.

Read an excerpt from Tillman’s memoir Mothercare here.

 


]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-12742902 Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0100 2756 full false Vanessa Onwuemezi, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 108 Vanessa Onwuemezi, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 108 In 2022 Vanessa Onwuemezi spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, sitting with strangeness and the joy of trying out new sounds on the page.

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London, her story ‘At the Heart of Things’ won the White Review Short Story Prize in 2019. Her debut story collection, Dark Neighbourhood, was published in 2021 by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Read ‘Cuba’, a short story from Dark Neighbourhood, here.  

]]> In 2022 Vanessa Onwuemezi spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, sitting with strangeness and the joy of trying out new sounds on the page.

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London, her story ‘At the Heart of Things’ won the White Review Short Story Prize in 2019. Her debut story collection, Dark Neighbourhood, was published in 2021 by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Read ‘Cuba’, a short story from Dark Neighbourhood, here.  

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-12643399 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0100 2301 full false Anthony Anaxagorou, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 107 Anthony Anaxagorou, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 107 In 2022 Anthony Anaxagorou and editor Josie Mitchell talked about heritage, national identity and poetry that cannot keep still.

Anthony is the author of several volumes of poetry, non-fiction and a collection of short stories. His latest book, Heritage Aesthetics, draws on family migratory histories between Cyprus and the UK to interrogate patriarchy, xenophobia and national divides.

Purchase a copy of Anthony Anaxagorou’s new poetry collection, Heritage Aesthetics, here. You can also read poems from his 2019 collection, After the Formalities, here. 



]]> In 2022 Anthony Anaxagorou and editor Josie Mitchell talked about heritage, national identity and poetry that cannot keep still.

Anthony is the author of several volumes of poetry, non-fiction and a collection of short stories. His latest book, Heritage Aesthetics, draws on family migratory histories between Cyprus and the UK to interrogate patriarchy, xenophobia and national divides.

Purchase a copy of Anthony Anaxagorou’s new poetry collection, Heritage Aesthetics, here. You can also read poems from his 2019 collection, After the Formalities, here. 



]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-12608112 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0100 2382 full false Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 106 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 106 In 2022 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about a fear of forgetting, Lapeyrouse Cemetery and our cultural traditions around death.

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago currently living in London. Her debut novel When We Were Birds was named one of the Observer’s Best Debuts of 2022 and one of the Economist’s Best Books of 2022.

Read an excerpt from When We Were Birds here.

]]> In 2022 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about a fear of forgetting, Lapeyrouse Cemetery and our cultural traditions around death.

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago currently living in London. Her debut novel When We Were Birds was named one of the Observer’s Best Debuts of 2022 and one of the Economist’s Best Books of 2022.

Read an excerpt from When We Were Birds here.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-12556515 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0100 2082 full false Mary Gaitskill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 105 Mary Gaitskill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 105 In 2022 Mary Gaitskill talked to editor Josie Mitchell about her fascination with the idea of hell, returning to past creative work and writing characters with different experiences from her own.

Mary Gaitskill is the author of Bad Behavior; Two Girls, Fat and Thin; Because They Wanted To; Veronica; Don’t Cry; The Mare; Somebody with a Little Hammer; and This is Pleasure. Her new book, The Devil’s Treasure, is a hybrid work of criticism, memoir and mythography.

Her essay ‘Lost Cat’, first published in Granta 107, is available to read here.

]]> In 2022 Mary Gaitskill talked to editor Josie Mitchell about her fascination with the idea of hell, returning to past creative work and writing characters with different experiences from her own.

Mary Gaitskill is the author of Bad Behavior; Two Girls, Fat and Thin; Because They Wanted To; Veronica; Don’t Cry; The Mare; Somebody with a Little Hammer; and This is Pleasure. Her new book, The Devil’s Treasure, is a hybrid work of criticism, memoir and mythography.

Her essay ‘Lost Cat’, first published in Granta 107, is available to read here.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-12501431 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000 2416 full false Eula Biss, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 104 Eula Biss, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 104 In 2021 Eula Biss talked to editor Josie Mitchell on the distortions of capital, bartering with Pokémon cards and the conditions necessary for creativity.

Eula Biss is the author of four books, including On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land. Her most recent book, Having and Being Had, looks at our beliefs about class and owning property.

Read an excerpt from Having and Being Had on granta.com. 

]]> In 2021 Eula Biss talked to editor Josie Mitchell on the distortions of capital, bartering with Pokémon cards and the conditions necessary for creativity.

Eula Biss is the author of four books, including On Immunity and Notes from No Man’s Land. Her most recent book, Having and Being Had, looks at our beliefs about class and owning property.

Read an excerpt from Having and Being Had on granta.com. 

]]> Buzzsprout-10692194 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0100 2308 full false Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 103 Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 103 Last year Stephanie Sy-Quia spoke to online editor Josie Mitchell about modern cathedrals, telling her grandmothers’ stories and the impulse to categorise.

Stephanie Sy-Quia’s debut poetry collection Amnion was selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her writing has appeared in the FT Weekend, the TLS, the Economist, the Spectator and TANK magazine, and has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay Prize.

You can read an excerpt from Amnion on granta.com. 

]]> Last year Stephanie Sy-Quia spoke to online editor Josie Mitchell about modern cathedrals, telling her grandmothers’ stories and the impulse to categorise.

Stephanie Sy-Quia’s debut poetry collection Amnion was selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her writing has appeared in the FT Weekend, the TLS, the Economist, the Spectator and TANK magazine, and has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay Prize.

You can read an excerpt from Amnion on granta.com. 

]]> Buzzsprout-10692200 Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0100 2109 full false Tice Cin, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 102 Tice Cin, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 102 Last year Tice Cin spoke to Josie Mitchell about poetry, brutalist architecture and returning home.

Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from north London. Her debut novel Keeping the House has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. A DJ and music producer, she also hosts Homing Tunes, a show on Threads Radio.

Get a copy of Keeping the House. 

Read ‘Census’, a poem by Gboyega Odubanjo, on granta.com.

]]> Last year Tice Cin spoke to Josie Mitchell about poetry, brutalist architecture and returning home.

Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from north London. Her debut novel Keeping the House has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. A DJ and music producer, she also hosts Homing Tunes, a show on Threads Radio.

Get a copy of Keeping the House. 

Read ‘Census’, a poem by Gboyega Odubanjo, on granta.com.

]]> Buzzsprout-10692171 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0100 1994 full false Anuk Arudpragasam, The Granta Podcast Ep. 101 Anuk Arudpragasam, The Granta Podcast Ep. 101 In 2021 Anuk Arudpragasam spoke to Josie Mitchell about the influence of Thomas Bernhard, writing in the wake of war and his relationship to the English language.

Arudpragasam was born in Colombo and currently lives between Sri Lanka and India. His debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. His second book, A Passage North, was since shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

Read an excerpt from A Passage North at granta.com. 

]]> In 2021 Anuk Arudpragasam spoke to Josie Mitchell about the influence of Thomas Bernhard, writing in the wake of war and his relationship to the English language.

Arudpragasam was born in Colombo and currently lives between Sri Lanka and India. His debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. His second book, A Passage North, was since shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

Read an excerpt from A Passage North at granta.com. 

]]> https://granta.com/podcast-anuk-arudpragasam/ Anuk Arudpragasam Buzzsprout-10692160 Fri, 27 May 2022 15:00:00 +0100 2359 full false Kathryn Scanlan, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 100 Kathryn Scanlan, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 100 Back in the early summer of 2020, the writer Kathryn Scanlan joined Josie Mitchell to talk about her story collection, The Dominant Animal. They discussed her precarious worlds, the drama of the sentence and working with the writer and editor Diane Williams.  

‘Fable’, a story taken from The Dominant Animal , is available to read here. 

]]> Back in the early summer of 2020, the writer Kathryn Scanlan joined Josie Mitchell to talk about her story collection, The Dominant Animal. They discussed her precarious worlds, the drama of the sentence and working with the writer and editor Diane Williams.  

‘Fable’, a story taken from The Dominant Animal , is available to read here. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-5656117 Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000 1569 full false Joanna Kavenna, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 99 Joanna Kavenna, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 99 Joanna Kavenna joins Josie Mitchell to discuss Zed – a sci-fi dystopia exploring our fears about the psychological cost of surveillance capitalism. 

Early in 2020, newly under lockdown, they discussed the psychic threat posed by today’s tech companies, the blurring of citizen and consumer, and the early optimism of cyberspace. 

You can read an excerpt from the novel on our website for free, and subscribers can also read ‘The Perfect Companion’, an AI short story that journeys further into the world of Zed. 

]]> Joanna Kavenna joins Josie Mitchell to discuss Zed – a sci-fi dystopia exploring our fears about the psychological cost of surveillance capitalism. 

Early in 2020, newly under lockdown, they discussed the psychic threat posed by today’s tech companies, the blurring of citizen and consumer, and the early optimism of cyberspace. 

You can read an excerpt from the novel on our website for free, and subscribers can also read ‘The Perfect Companion’, an AI short story that journeys further into the world of Zed. 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-6105958 Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000 1416 full false Caleb Klaces, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 98 Caleb Klaces, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 98 Caleb Klaces joins Josie Mitchell to talk about about his debut novel, Fatherhood – his poet’s account of becoming a father.

Back at the beginning of the UK lockdown, they discussed parenting your kids at home, and talked about the expectations placed on fathers and the sense of community on offer to them.

You can find poetry and short fiction by Caleb on our website.

]]> Caleb Klaces joins Josie Mitchell to talk about about his debut novel, Fatherhood – his poet’s account of becoming a father.

Back at the beginning of the UK lockdown, they discussed parenting your kids at home, and talked about the expectations placed on fathers and the sense of community on offer to them.

You can find poetry and short fiction by Caleb on our website.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-6105985 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000 1364 full false Sophie Mackintosh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 97 Sophie Mackintosh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 97 Sophie Mackintosh speaks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Blue Ticket. They talk about what it means to be pregnancy-adjacent, the bloodthirsty aspects of motherhood, and letting the body have what it wants. 

You can find more fiction by Sophie Mackintosh on Granta.com, including ‘The Last Rite of My Body’ and ‘The Weak Spot’.

]]> Sophie Mackintosh speaks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Blue Ticket. They talk about what it means to be pregnancy-adjacent, the bloodthirsty aspects of motherhood, and letting the body have what it wants. 

You can find more fiction by Sophie Mackintosh on Granta.com, including ‘The Last Rite of My Body’ and ‘The Weak Spot’.

]]> Sophie Mackintosh Buzzsprout-5657536 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0000 1561 full false Ottessa Moshfegh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 96 Ottessa Moshfegh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 96 Ottessa Moshfegh joined Josie Mitchell to talk about about her novel, Death in Her Name.

They discuss the ‘perfect storm’ trapping us inside with our Zoom-ready devices, the propaganda in the air, and the psychological effects of isolation on the elderly narrator of her novel.

You can read an excerpt from Death In Her Name here. As well as more fiction from Ottessa on our website and in print.

]]> Ottessa Moshfegh joined Josie Mitchell to talk about about her novel, Death in Her Name.

They discuss the ‘perfect storm’ trapping us inside with our Zoom-ready devices, the propaganda in the air, and the psychological effects of isolation on the elderly narrator of her novel.

You can read an excerpt from Death In Her Name here. As well as more fiction from Ottessa on our website and in print.

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-5656285 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:00:00 +0100 1546 full false Carmen Maria Machado, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 95 Carmen Maria Machado, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 95 Carmen Maria Machado discusses her new memoir, In the Dream House, with Josie Mitchell. They discuss memory as architecture, formal experimentation, and making space for queer narrative. 

Carmen is the author of Her Body and Other Parties. You can read more of her work, including the new story ‘The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror’, from our Winter 2020 issue, here.

 

]]> Carmen Maria Machado discusses her new memoir, In the Dream House, with Josie Mitchell. They discuss memory as architecture, formal experimentation, and making space for queer narrative. 

Carmen is the author of Her Body and Other Parties. You can read more of her work, including the new story ‘The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror’, from our Winter 2020 issue, here.

 

]]> Carmen Maria Machado Buzzsprout-5891203 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0100 1601 full false Momtaza Mehri, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 94 Momtaza Mehri, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 94 Josie Mitchell talks to Momtaza Mehri about her pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, out with Goldsmiths Shorts. They discuss the value of self-interrogation, the significance of the Black Arts Movement and the limits to checking your privilege. 

You can read Momtaza’s poetry and essays on our website:
https://granta.com/contributor/momtaza-mehri/

And her recent essay in the Guardian, ‘Anti-racism requires so much more than checking your privilege’:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/07/anti-racism-checking-privilege-anti-blackness

]]> Josie Mitchell talks to Momtaza Mehri about her pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, out with Goldsmiths Shorts. They discuss the value of self-interrogation, the significance of the Black Arts Movement and the limits to checking your privilege. 

You can read Momtaza’s poetry and essays on our website:
https://granta.com/contributor/momtaza-mehri/

And her recent essay in the Guardian, ‘Anti-racism requires so much more than checking your privilege’:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/07/anti-racism-checking-privilege-anti-blackness

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-5656201 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0100 1698 full false Jenny Offill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 93 Jenny Offill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 93 Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, talks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Weather. They discuss pre-apocalypse warnings, the doomers among us and the draws of prepper culture in a world gone mad.

You can read an interview between Jenny and Mark O’Connell, author of Notes from an Apocalypse, on our website: https://granta.com/in-conversation-oconnell-offill/ 

]]> Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, talks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Weather. They discuss pre-apocalypse warnings, the doomers among us and the draws of prepper culture in a world gone mad.

You can read an interview between Jenny and Mark O’Connell, author of Notes from an Apocalypse, on our website: https://granta.com/in-conversation-oconnell-offill/ 

]]> Granta Magazine Buzzsprout-5656045 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0100 1578 full false Sandra Newman: The Granta Podcast Ep. 92 Sandra Newman: The Granta Podcast Ep. 92 Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, Cake, The Country of Ice Cream Star and four non-fiction books including the memoir Changeling. Her most recent novel The Heavens is published by Granta Books. She spoke to Lucy Diver about friendship, love, hope and how to write like an Elizabethan.

]]> Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, Cake, The Country of Ice Cream Star and four non-fiction books including the memoir Changeling. Her most recent novel The Heavens is published by Granta Books. She spoke to Lucy Diver about friendship, love, hope and how to write like an Elizabethan.

]]> Sandra Newman tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/643343931 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:41:54 +0100 1204 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Maureen N. McLane: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 91 Maureen N. McLane: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 91 Maureen N. McLane reads from her book My Poets. My Poets begins its first chapter ‘proem, in the form of a Q&A’, which is what you hear at the beginning of the recording. The second part of the recording is from ‘My Elizabeth Bishop / My Gertrude Stein’, the fourth chapter in the book,

]]> Maureen N. McLane reads from her book My Poets. My Poets begins its first chapter ‘proem, in the form of a Q&A’, which is what you hear at the beginning of the recording. The second part of the recording is from ‘My Elizabeth Bishop / My Gertrude Stein’, the fourth chapter in the book,

]]> Maureen N. McLane tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/379103633 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:43:28 +0000 713 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 90 Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 90 Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels and one book of non-fiction. Among many other accolades, Kamila is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. She joined us in the Granta offices for an interview about her new novel Home Fire, published by Bloomsbury. Home Fire was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

]]> Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels and one book of non-fiction. Among many other accolades, Kamila is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. She joined us in the Granta offices for an interview about her new novel Home Fire, published by Bloomsbury. Home Fire was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

]]> Kamila Shamsie tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/359909963 Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:48:52 +0000 1820 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Max Porter reads Will Self: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 89 Max Porter reads Will Self: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 89 In this episode of the Granta podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self. Diagnosed with a rare blood condition, Self attends weekly ‘venesections’ (the modern-day equivalent of bloodletting) which inspire morbid thoughts on addiction and disease. The story can be found in full on our website: https://granta.com/false-blood/ Will Self is the author of numerous novels, most recently Phone. In 1993 he was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian First Book Award and the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize, and won the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize.

]]> In this episode of the Granta podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self. Diagnosed with a rare blood condition, Self attends weekly ‘venesections’ (the modern-day equivalent of bloodletting) which inspire morbid thoughts on addiction and disease. The story can be found in full on our website: https://granta.com/false-blood/ Will Self is the author of numerous novels, most recently Phone. In 1993 he was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian First Book Award and the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize, and won the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize.

]]> Max Porter tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/355605980 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:22:31 +0000 2059 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Margo Jefferson reads Kathleen Collins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 88 Margo Jefferson reads Kathleen Collins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 88 In this episode of the Granta podcast, Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, reads Kathleen Collins’s short story, ‘The Uncle’, taken from the collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African-American playwright, film-maker, civil rights activist and educator. You can read more work by Kathleen Collins on our website: granta.com/whatever-happened-to-interracial-love/

]]> In this episode of the Granta podcast, Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, reads Kathleen Collins’s short story, ‘The Uncle’, taken from the collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African-American playwright, film-maker, civil rights activist and educator. You can read more work by Kathleen Collins on our website: granta.com/whatever-happened-to-interracial-love/

]]> Margo Jefferson tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/333875203 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:51:56 +0100 554 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Andrea Stuart: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 87 Andrea Stuart: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 87 In this episode of the Granta podcast, Josie Mitchell speaks with Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They discuss the value of feminist porn, the importance of counter narratives and the challenges faced by feminist pornographers. The essay was first published in August 2016. You can read the essay in full on our website: https://granta.com/travels-in-pornland/

]]> In this episode of the Granta podcast, Josie Mitchell speaks with Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They discuss the value of feminist porn, the importance of counter narratives and the challenges faced by feminist pornographers. The essay was first published in August 2016. You can read the essay in full on our website: https://granta.com/travels-in-pornland/

]]> Andrea Stuart tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/331509585 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:15:53 +0100 752 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false George Saunders In Conversation: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 86 George Saunders In Conversation: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 86 Luke Neima talks to George Saunders about his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. They discuss the pressures on Abraham Lincoln during the civil war, the art of creating distinctive historical voices, verbal improv and writing the afterlife.

]]> Luke Neima talks to George Saunders about his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. They discuss the pressures on Abraham Lincoln during the civil war, the art of creating distinctive historical voices, verbal improv and writing the afterlife.

]]> George Saunders tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/317001159 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:48:17 +0100 1121 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Diane Williams: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 85 Diane Williams: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 85 In this edition of the Granta podcast, editor Luke Neima talks to Diane Williams, the author of eight books of fiction and founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual NOON. Diane reads from her latest book, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, and discusses her approaches to writing and editing, the gatekeepers of literary publication and stitching.

]]> In this edition of the Granta podcast, editor Luke Neima talks to Diane Williams, the author of eight books of fiction and founder and editor of the distinguished literary annual NOON. Diane reads from her latest book, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, and discusses her approaches to writing and editing, the gatekeepers of literary publication and stitching.

]]> Diane Williams tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/309806231 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:22:21 +0000 1047 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Ros Porter reads Carmen Maria Machado: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 84 Ros Porter reads Carmen Maria Machado: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 84 Rosalind Porter reads Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch’. The story was first published in 2015, and went on to be nominated for the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award.Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is out with Graywolf Press.

]]> Rosalind Porter reads Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch’. The story was first published in 2015, and went on to be nominated for the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award.Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is out with Graywolf Press.

]]> tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/290822802 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:35:19 +0000 2462 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Madeleine Thien: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 83 Madeleine Thien: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 83 In this edition of the Granta Podcast, editor Ka Bradley speaks with Madeleine Thien about her book, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which has recently been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. They talk about translating the sensation of music for a reader, the importance of writing about women of colour, and the Chinese conceptual framework of time.

]]> In this edition of the Granta Podcast, editor Ka Bradley speaks with Madeleine Thien about her book, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which has recently been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. They talk about translating the sensation of music for a reader, the importance of writing about women of colour, and the Chinese conceptual framework of time.

]]> Madeleine Thien tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/285835316 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:57:27 +0100 1381 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Astrid Alben: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 82 Astrid Alben: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 82 In this edition of the Granta podcast we speak to Astrid Alben, who reads a selection from her book of poetry Plainspeak, discusses her work as a translator and as an editor of the interdisciplinary journal Pars, shares a poem by Valérie Rouzeau – translated from the French by Susan Wicks – and explains how she develops her poetic alter ego.

]]> In this edition of the Granta podcast we speak to Astrid Alben, who reads a selection from her book of poetry Plainspeak, discusses her work as a translator and as an editor of the interdisciplinary journal Pars, shares a poem by Valérie Rouzeau – translated from the French by Susan Wicks – and explains how she develops her poetic alter ego.

]]> Astrid Alben tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/282710557 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:00:09 +0100 1276 full false The Irish Writing Boom: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 81 The Irish Writing Boom: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 81 In our latest podcast, Joanna Walsh discusses the Irish Writing Boom with Sarah Davis-Goff of Tramp Press; Susan Tomaselli, editor of Gorse Journal; and Amy Herron of the Irish Writers' Centre. They touch on the culture and history of Ireland’s literary journals; short story culture; the fight against marketing departments and the work of fostering literary innovation.

]]> In our latest podcast, Joanna Walsh discusses the Irish Writing Boom with Sarah Davis-Goff of Tramp Press; Susan Tomaselli, editor of Gorse Journal; and Amy Herron of the Irish Writers' Centre. They touch on the culture and history of Ireland’s literary journals; short story culture; the fight against marketing departments and the work of fostering literary innovation.

]]> Joanna Walsh tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/272420723 Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:54:31 +0100 1418 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 80 Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 80 Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 80 by Granta Magazine

]]> Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 80 by Granta Magazine

]]> Sally Rooney tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/268277745 Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:34:50 +0100 807 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false New Irish Writing: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 79 New Irish Writing: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 79 Ireland has one of the world's most distinguished literary traditions. In Granta 135: New Irish Writing, we showcase contemporary Irish fiction, memoir, poetry and photography.For the launch of the issue, Granta and Foyles hosted Peggy Hughes, Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell and Sara Baume in a discussion about their work, the state of Irish writing and the place of technology in literature. Audio production by Adam Barr.

]]> Ireland has one of the world's most distinguished literary traditions. In Granta 135: New Irish Writing, we showcase contemporary Irish fiction, memoir, poetry and photography.For the launch of the issue, Granta and Foyles hosted Peggy Hughes, Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell and Sara Baume in a discussion about their work, the state of Irish writing and the place of technology in literature. Audio production by Adam Barr.

]]> Sally Rooney tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/263198015 Mon, 09 May 2016 12:25:14 +0100 1559 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false No Man’s Land: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 78 No Man’s Land: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 78 Last year we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but the legacy of war and communism lives on in eastern Europe. In the new issue of Granta – No Man’s Land – Peter Pomerantsev writes about propaganda in Ukraine’s Donbas region, where pro-Russian activists battle with pro-Ukrainian, pro-democracy activists and Ukrainian nationalists, whilst Philip Ó Ceallaigh tells the devastating story of the Communist destruction of Old Bucharest. They joined us for the launch of the new issue at the Frontline Club in London.

Both writers encounter people who are longing for a strong leader to bring back security and pride. They discussed whether, following the challenges to democratic structures in Russia, Hungary, and most recently Poland, eastern Europe’s new democracies are at risk.

Chaired by author and journalist Oliver Bullough, who lived and worked in Russia from 1999 – 2006. He is author of two books about Russian history and politics: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great.

Peter Pomerantsev is the author of Nothing is True and Nothing is Possible, Adventures in Modern Russia. He is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute, where he runs a project on contemporary propaganda and how to deal with it. 

Philip Ó Ceallaigh is the author of two collections of short stories, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse and The Pleasant Light of Day. At present he is working on a book about the Jewish world of Eastern Europe and its destruction, as witnessed by its writers. Audio production by Adam Barr.

]]> Last year we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but the legacy of war and communism lives on in eastern Europe. In the new issue of Granta – No Man’s Land – Peter Pomerantsev writes about propaganda in Ukraine’s Donbas region, where pro-Russian activists battle with pro-Ukrainian, pro-democracy activists and Ukrainian nationalists, whilst Philip Ó Ceallaigh tells the devastating story of the Communist destruction of Old Bucharest. They joined us for the launch of the new issue at the Frontline Club in London.

Both writers encounter people who are longing for a strong leader to bring back security and pride. They discussed whether, following the challenges to democratic structures in Russia, Hungary, and most recently Poland, eastern Europe’s new democracies are at risk.

Chaired by author and journalist Oliver Bullough, who lived and worked in Russia from 1999 – 2006. He is author of two books about Russian history and politics: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great.

Peter Pomerantsev is the author of Nothing is True and Nothing is Possible, Adventures in Modern Russia. He is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute, where he runs a project on contemporary propaganda and how to deal with it. 

Philip Ó Ceallaigh is the author of two collections of short stories, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse and The Pleasant Light of Day. At present he is working on a book about the Jewish world of Eastern Europe and its destruction, as witnessed by its writers. Audio production by Adam Barr.

]]> Peter Pomerantsev, Philip Ó Ceallaigh tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/249843492 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:07:53 +0000 1070 full false Patrick deWitt and Neel Mukherjee: The Granta Podcast Ep. 77 Patrick deWitt and Neel Mukherjee: The Granta Podcast Ep. 77 Neel Mukherjee and Patrick deWitt discuss their books, Undermajordomo Minor and The Lives of Others, subconscious influence, the power of the exclamation mark and love.

]]> Neel Mukherjee and Patrick deWitt discuss their books, Undermajordomo Minor and The Lives of Others, subconscious influence, the power of the exclamation mark and love.

]]> Neel Mukherjee, Patrick deWitt tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/237834329 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 16:58:08 +0000 924 interview, in conversation, literature, books full false Hiromi Kawakami: The Granta Podcast Ep. 76 Hiromi Kawakami: The Granta Podcast Ep. 76 Hiromi Kawakami is a novelist, haiku poet, literary critic and essayist. Her books include 'Manazuru, Pasuta mashiin yūrei' ('Pasta Machine Ghosts') and 'Sensei no kaban' ('The Briefcase'), published as 'Strange Weather in Tokyo' by Portobello Books in the UK. She was awarded the 1996 Akutagawa Prize for 'Hebi o fumu' (Tread on a Snake).Here, she talks to Granta Books editor Anne Meadows on her essay for Granta 127: Japan, the presence of death in her work and the influence of Gabriel García Márquez, with interpretation by Asa Yoneda.'I never really thought about death or mortality, but coming to terms with this diagnosis, or the probability of this diagnosis, I realised that, medically speaking, death can always be thought of not as a certainty, but as a probability. Looking back, I never was aware of feeling that close to death, but actually if you think about it, just living every day there is a very small but definitely existing chance of death, whatever you're doing, wherever you are.' Image courtesy of Ryoko Uyama

]]> Hiromi Kawakami is a novelist, haiku poet, literary critic and essayist. Her books include 'Manazuru, Pasuta mashiin yūrei' ('Pasta Machine Ghosts') and 'Sensei no kaban' ('The Briefcase'), published as 'Strange Weather in Tokyo' by Portobello Books in the UK. She was awarded the 1996 Akutagawa Prize for 'Hebi o fumu' (Tread on a Snake).Here, she talks to Granta Books editor Anne Meadows on her essay for Granta 127: Japan, the presence of death in her work and the influence of Gabriel García Márquez, with interpretation by Asa Yoneda.'I never really thought about death or mortality, but coming to terms with this diagnosis, or the probability of this diagnosis, I realised that, medically speaking, death can always be thought of not as a certainty, but as a probability. Looking back, I never was aware of feeling that close to death, but actually if you think about it, just living every day there is a very small but definitely existing chance of death, whatever you're doing, wherever you are.' Image courtesy of Ryoko Uyama

]]> Hiromi Kawakami tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/150395002 Tue, 20 May 2014 11:56:09 +0100 887 interview, in conversation, literature, in translation full false Ruth Ozeki: The Granta Podcast Ep. 75 Ruth Ozeki: The Granta Podcast Ep. 75 Ruth Ozeki is the author of 'My Year of Meats', 'All Over Creation' and 'A Tale for the Time Being', which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For Granta’s Japan issue, she wrote an essay on her grandfather: about a mysterious photograph she has of him and about the ways she feels linked to him across time.In the latest Granta podcast, she reads from the piece and discusses it alongside her latest novel, 'A Tale for the Time Being', touching on haiku, feminist Buddhist nuns, memory, the idea of cultural gyres and why and how she wrote herself into her book.'I'm mixed race, I'm kind of like the meeting point between these two cultures and these two histories. And somehow that is in my DNA, and growing up mixed race, it always did feel like there was a tension there between the two halves. And I never was quite sure who I was or who I was supposed to be... it seemed very odd and unstable to be who I was.'

]]> Ruth Ozeki is the author of 'My Year of Meats', 'All Over Creation' and 'A Tale for the Time Being', which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For Granta’s Japan issue, she wrote an essay on her grandfather: about a mysterious photograph she has of him and about the ways she feels linked to him across time.In the latest Granta podcast, she reads from the piece and discusses it alongside her latest novel, 'A Tale for the Time Being', touching on haiku, feminist Buddhist nuns, memory, the idea of cultural gyres and why and how she wrote herself into her book.'I'm mixed race, I'm kind of like the meeting point between these two cultures and these two histories. And somehow that is in my DNA, and growing up mixed race, it always did feel like there was a tension there between the two halves. And I never was quite sure who I was or who I was supposed to be... it seemed very odd and unstable to be who I was.'

]]> Ruth Ozeki tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/142321060 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:26:36 +0100 2334 full false Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 74 Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 74 In the latest Granta podcast, Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg discuss recent South African history, their personal relationship to Johannesburg, and their personal relationship to a divided city. Mark Gevisser is the author of 'A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream', published by Palgrave Macmillan in the UK, and by Jonathan Ball in South Africa under the title, 'Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred'. His latest book, 'Dispatcher', is published by Granta. Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about South Africa's transition to democracy. His next book, 'A Man of Good Hope', will be published in January 2015. He teaches African Studies and Criminology at the University of Oxford.‘Johannesburg is such an enormously contradictory place, it’s a place of great fear it’s a place of high walls and electric fences, and yet it is also a place of wall-lessness in such profound ways… it is a very mercurial place, it’s of great fear and yet extraordinary energy.’

]]> In the latest Granta podcast, Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg discuss recent South African history, their personal relationship to Johannesburg, and their personal relationship to a divided city. Mark Gevisser is the author of 'A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream', published by Palgrave Macmillan in the UK, and by Jonathan Ball in South Africa under the title, 'Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred'. His latest book, 'Dispatcher', is published by Granta. Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about South Africa's transition to democracy. His next book, 'A Man of Good Hope', will be published in January 2015. He teaches African Studies and Criminology at the University of Oxford.‘Johannesburg is such an enormously contradictory place, it’s a place of great fear it’s a place of high walls and electric fences, and yet it is also a place of wall-lessness in such profound ways… it is a very mercurial place, it’s of great fear and yet extraordinary energy.’

]]> tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/139364048 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:33:55 +0000 2235 full false Lindsey Hilsum: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 73 Lindsey Hilsum: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 73 Lindsey Hilsum is International Editor of Channel Four News and the author of ‘Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution’.In 1994 she was the only English-speaking Foreign Correspondent working in Rwanda when the genocide began. Her essay in the latest issue of Granta tells of her return to the country 19 years after the conflict.Here we talk about her time in Rwanda, Libya and how countries can repair in the aftermath of war. The podcast begins with Lindsey reading from her essay ‘The Rainy Season’, in Granta 125: After the War.‘I think that for me there were a lot of things that were unresolved which I tried to resolve by going back and by writing, but maybe I have to accept that some things will never be resolved.’

]]> Lindsey Hilsum is International Editor of Channel Four News and the author of ‘Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution’.In 1994 she was the only English-speaking Foreign Correspondent working in Rwanda when the genocide began. Her essay in the latest issue of Granta tells of her return to the country 19 years after the conflict.Here we talk about her time in Rwanda, Libya and how countries can repair in the aftermath of war. The podcast begins with Lindsey reading from her essay ‘The Rainy Season’, in Granta 125: After the War.‘I think that for me there were a lot of things that were unresolved which I tried to resolve by going back and by writing, but maybe I have to accept that some things will never be resolved.’

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/116509108 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:51:25 +0100 1470 full false Juan Pablo Villalobos: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 72 Juan Pablo Villalobos: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 72 In the latest Granta podcast, we’re joined by Juan Pablo Villalobos, author of 'Down the Rabbit Hole', which was nominated for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and, most recently, 'Quesadillas'.Here, Villalobos talks about parodying Mexican identity, the difficulty of translation and class struggle in Mexico. ‘The worst thing wasn’t being poor; the worst thing was having no idea of the things you can do with money.’

]]> In the latest Granta podcast, we’re joined by Juan Pablo Villalobos, author of 'Down the Rabbit Hole', which was nominated for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and, most recently, 'Quesadillas'.Here, Villalobos talks about parodying Mexican identity, the difficulty of translation and class struggle in Mexico. ‘The worst thing wasn’t being poor; the worst thing was having no idea of the things you can do with money.’

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/111069723 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:29:14 +0100 1853 full false Eleanor Catton: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 71 Eleanor Catton: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 71 Eleanor Catton’s debut novel, The Rehearsal, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the Dylan Thomas Prize, longlisted for The Orange Prize and received a Betty Task award. Her second novel, The Luminaries, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker prize. 

Here, Granta Books editor Anne Meadows talks to Catton about opium sand gold, the ideas of the modern and the archaic, whether a good author can also be a sadist, and what it means to be a New Zealand writer today. ‘I am very firm in the belief that literature is not a competitive sport, we’re all doing the same thing, and hopefully for similar reasons.’

]]> Eleanor Catton’s debut novel, The Rehearsal, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the Dylan Thomas Prize, longlisted for The Orange Prize and received a Betty Task award. Her second novel, The Luminaries, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker prize. 

Here, Granta Books editor Anne Meadows talks to Catton about opium sand gold, the ideas of the modern and the archaic, whether a good author can also be a sadist, and what it means to be a New Zealand writer today. ‘I am very firm in the belief that literature is not a competitive sport, we’re all doing the same thing, and hopefully for similar reasons.’

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/109695922 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:16:49 +0100 3335 full false Lina Wolff: The Granta Podcast Ep. 70 Lina Wolff: The Granta Podcast Ep. 70 Granta speaks to Lina Wolff, author of the story collection 'Många människor dör som du' ('Many Pepole Die Like You') and the novel 'Bret Easton Ellis och de andra hundarna' ('Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs'). 

Wolff writes in Swedish, and her story in the issue is based in Spain. Here she discusses the tension she felt between a ‘Spanishness’ and ‘Swedishness’, when writing and between a rational way of being and a magical way of thinking. 

She also discusses Lorca, Dante, literary travellers and their guides and the idea of irrationality and the artistic temperament. ‘I think in the beginning it was a crisis. I started to write because I felt the need to fit in, and not be an outsider... I have felt bound to an outsideness and an otherness.’ Image © Håkan Sandbring. 

]]> Granta speaks to Lina Wolff, author of the story collection 'Många människor dör som du' ('Many Pepole Die Like You') and the novel 'Bret Easton Ellis och de andra hundarna' ('Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs'). 

Wolff writes in Swedish, and her story in the issue is based in Spain. Here she discusses the tension she felt between a ‘Spanishness’ and ‘Swedishness’, when writing and between a rational way of being and a magical way of thinking. 

She also discusses Lorca, Dante, literary travellers and their guides and the idea of irrationality and the artistic temperament. ‘I think in the beginning it was a crisis. I started to write because I felt the need to fit in, and not be an outsider... I have felt bound to an outsideness and an otherness.’ Image © Håkan Sandbring. 

]]> Lina Wolff tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/107479517 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:12:26 +0100 2423 full false Sonia Faleiro: The Granta Podcast Ep. 69 Sonia Faleiro: The Granta Podcast Ep. 69 In the latest Granta podcast, Saskia Vogel speaks to Sonia Faleiro, a contributor to the Travel issue and a reporter. Faleiro is the author of a book of fiction, The Girl, and one book of non-fiction, Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars. She talks about how her gender influences her work and how she started out as a reporter. She also discusses the way we tell stories about women who use their bodies in to earn a living, Bombay’s complex sex industry and the idea of marginalized narratives.‘How we perceive people eventually influences what rights we think they deserve to be given, when there is actually no question of endowing someone with rights; you either have them or you don’t.’

]]> In the latest Granta podcast, Saskia Vogel speaks to Sonia Faleiro, a contributor to the Travel issue and a reporter. Faleiro is the author of a book of fiction, The Girl, and one book of non-fiction, Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars. She talks about how her gender influences her work and how she started out as a reporter. She also discusses the way we tell stories about women who use their bodies in to earn a living, Bombay’s complex sex industry and the idea of marginalized narratives.‘How we perceive people eventually influences what rights we think they deserve to be given, when there is actually no question of endowing someone with rights; you either have them or you don’t.’

]]> Sonia Faleiro tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/106490274 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:39:13 +0100 2010 full false Robert Macfarlane: The Granta Podcast Ep. 68 Robert Macfarlane: The Granta Podcast Ep. 68 In the latest Granta podcast, Rachael Allen speaks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane. Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places and most recently, The Old Ways. Macfarlane talks about ‘Underland’, his essay in Granta 124: Travel, which sees him exploring the underground caves of Karst country, and the different approaches writers take to show landscape through language. ‘When you're dealing with a geological context,’ says Macfarlane ‘its age exceeds your knowing, exceeds your comprehension. Deep time is dizzying and vertiginous.’

]]> In the latest Granta podcast, Rachael Allen speaks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane. Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places and most recently, The Old Ways. Macfarlane talks about ‘Underland’, his essay in Granta 124: Travel, which sees him exploring the underground caves of Karst country, and the different approaches writers take to show landscape through language. ‘When you're dealing with a geological context,’ says Macfarlane ‘its age exceeds your knowing, exceeds your comprehension. Deep time is dizzying and vertiginous.’

]]> Robert Macfarlane tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/104673582 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:33:01 +0100 1054 full false Rebecca Solnit: The Granta Podcast Ep. 67 Rebecca Solnit: The Granta Podcast Ep. 67 In the latest Granta podcast, Yuka Igarashi speaks to writer, journalist and activist Rebecca Solnit. Solnit is the author of numerous books about art, landscape, ecology and politics. They include A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; Infinite City, a book of 22 maps with nearly 30 collaborators; and, most recently The Faraway Nearby, published this June. Solnit discusses how her new book interweaves personal narratives about family and illness with stories about Mary Shelley and Che Guevara. We also talk about her interest in paradoxes and her momentary connection to Beyonce.

]]> In the latest Granta podcast, Yuka Igarashi speaks to writer, journalist and activist Rebecca Solnit. Solnit is the author of numerous books about art, landscape, ecology and politics. They include A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; Infinite City, a book of 22 maps with nearly 30 collaborators; and, most recently The Faraway Nearby, published this June. Solnit discusses how her new book interweaves personal narratives about family and illness with stories about Mary Shelley and Che Guevara. We also talk about her interest in paradoxes and her momentary connection to Beyonce.

]]> Rebecca Solnit tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/97239959 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:33:39 +0100 2419 67 full false A.M. Homes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 66 A.M. Homes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 66 In the latest Granta podcast, Yuka Igarashi talks to A.M. Homes, the recipient of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for May We Be Forgiven. Homes is the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack; the story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know; and the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter (Granta Books). As a followup to an interview when May We Be Forgiven was published, they spoke about what winning the prize means to her. They also discussed family and the American Dream as themes in her book, why the Korean translation of one of her novels comes with a coupon for Dunkin Donuts, and the influence that her writing teacher Grace Paley had on her work and life.

]]> In the latest Granta podcast, Yuka Igarashi talks to A.M. Homes, the recipient of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for May We Be Forgiven. Homes is the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack; the story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know; and the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter (Granta Books). As a followup to an interview when May We Be Forgiven was published, they spoke about what winning the prize means to her. They also discussed family and the American Dream as themes in her book, why the Korean translation of one of her novels comes with a coupon for Dunkin Donuts, and the influence that her writing teacher Grace Paley had on her work and life.

]]> A.M. Homes tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/95887690 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:23:16 +0100 1965 66 full false George Saunders: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 65 George Saunders: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 65 On the latest Granta podcast we hear from George Saunders. One of the finest, funniest writers of his generation, he writes stories that pulse with outsized heart, crackle with the ad-speak and eek out the human story from the lives of theme-park workers and the subjects of strange drug tests that enhance libido and eloquence. His books include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, In Persuasion Nation, Pastoralia and most recently Tenth of December. He has also published a book of essays, The Braindead Megaphone. Here he spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about allowing his characters access to goodness, why he wants to avoid ‘auto-dark’ in his stories, how the death of David Foster Wallace affected his writing and closing the gap between art and life.

]]> On the latest Granta podcast we hear from George Saunders. One of the finest, funniest writers of his generation, he writes stories that pulse with outsized heart, crackle with the ad-speak and eek out the human story from the lives of theme-park workers and the subjects of strange drug tests that enhance libido and eloquence. His books include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, In Persuasion Nation, Pastoralia and most recently Tenth of December. He has also published a book of essays, The Braindead Megaphone. Here he spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about allowing his characters access to goodness, why he wants to avoid ‘auto-dark’ in his stories, how the death of David Foster Wallace affected his writing and closing the gap between art and life.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/95552708 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:40:03 +0100 3137 65 full false Tahmima Anam: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 64 Tahmima Anam: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 64 The final in our series of podcasts featuring the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Tahmima Anam. Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque family from the Bangladesh war of independence to the present day. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It was followed in 2011 by The Good Muslim. ‘Anwar Gets Everything’, in the issue, is an excerpt from the final instalment of the trilogy, Shipbreaker, published in 2014 by Canongate in the UK and HarperCollins in the US. Here she spoke to Saskia Vogel about making a home in London and migration.

]]> The final in our series of podcasts featuring the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Tahmima Anam. Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque family from the Bangladesh war of independence to the present day. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. It was followed in 2011 by The Good Muslim. ‘Anwar Gets Everything’, in the issue, is an excerpt from the final instalment of the trilogy, Shipbreaker, published in 2014 by Canongate in the UK and HarperCollins in the US. Here she spoke to Saskia Vogel about making a home in London and migration.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/95199036 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:05:55 +0100 1566 64 full false Steven Hall: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 63 Steven Hall: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 63 Continuing our series of podcasts on the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Steven Hall. Born in Derbyshire, Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, won the Borders Original Voices Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages. ‘Spring’ and ‘Autumn’, in the issue, are excerpts from his upcoming second novel, The End of Endings. Here he spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about how the internet is, to his mind, disturbing the possibility of a novel with a single continuous narrative thread, writing from memory and the significance of Ian the cat in his first novel.

]]> Continuing our series of podcasts on the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Steven Hall. Born in Derbyshire, Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, won the Borders Original Voices Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages. ‘Spring’ and ‘Autumn’, in the issue, are excerpts from his upcoming second novel, The End of Endings. Here he spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about how the internet is, to his mind, disturbing the possibility of a novel with a single continuous narrative thread, writing from memory and the significance of Ian the cat in his first novel.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/94808404 Fri, 31 May 2013 15:29:44 +0100 2446 63 full false Jenni Fagan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 62 Jenni Fagan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 62 Continuing our series of podcasts on the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Jenni Fagan. Fagan’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The Panopticon, was published in 2012 and named one of the Waterstones Eleven, a selection of the best fiction debuts of the year. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was named 3:AM magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year. She holds an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and currently lives in a coastal village in Scotland. ‘Zephyrs’, in the issue, is an excerpt from her novel in progress. Here she speaks with Granta’s Ellah Allfrey about the care system, how a library van nurtured her love of reading from a young age and her days in a band.

]]> Continuing our series of podcasts on the Best of Young British Novelists 4, we hear from Jenni Fagan. Fagan’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The Panopticon, was published in 2012 and named one of the Waterstones Eleven, a selection of the best fiction debuts of the year. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was named 3:AM magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year. She holds an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and currently lives in a coastal village in Scotland. ‘Zephyrs’, in the issue, is an excerpt from her novel in progress. Here she speaks with Granta’s Ellah Allfrey about the care system, how a library van nurtured her love of reading from a young age and her days in a band.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/93507899 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:53:29 +0100 1581 62 full false Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 61 Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 61 Continuing our Best of Young British Novelists we hear from Kamila Shamsie. Shamsie is the author of five novels. The first, In the City by the Sea, was published by Granta Books in 1998 and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her most recent novel, Burnt Shadows, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and translated into more than twenty languages. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a trustee of English PEN and a member of the Authors Cricket Club. ‘Vipers’, in the issue, is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel. Here she talks to John Freeman about the themes of love and war in her work, moving between her native Karachi and London where she lives now, her choice to become a UK citizen and how her uncle directed the first episode of Doctor Who.

]]> Continuing our Best of Young British Novelists we hear from Kamila Shamsie. Shamsie is the author of five novels. The first, In the City by the Sea, was published by Granta Books in 1998 and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her most recent novel, Burnt Shadows, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and translated into more than twenty languages. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a trustee of English PEN and a member of the Authors Cricket Club. ‘Vipers’, in the issue, is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel. Here she talks to John Freeman about the themes of love and war in her work, moving between her native Karachi and London where she lives now, her choice to become a UK citizen and how her uncle directed the first episode of Doctor Who.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/93501977 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:42:28 +0100 1344 61 full false Ross Raisin: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 60 Ross Raisin: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 60 Ross Raisin’s first novel, God’s Own Country, about a disturbed adolescent living in the Yorkshire Dales, won him the 2009 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Guardian First Book Award, a Betty Trask Award and numerous other prizes. His second novel, Waterline, about a former shipbuilder grieving the death of his wife in Glasgow, was published to critical acclaim in 2011. His short stories have been published in Prospect, Esquire, Dazed & Confused, the Sunday Times, on BBC Radio 3 and in Granta. In this podcast, he spoke to Yuka Igarashi about how he evokes place and inhabits characters in his writing; the difference between his approaches to short stories and novels; and what it means to him to be part of the Best Young British Novelist list. He also discusses his work on a new novel, which began as a story published in Granta: Britain.

]]> Ross Raisin’s first novel, God’s Own Country, about a disturbed adolescent living in the Yorkshire Dales, won him the 2009 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Guardian First Book Award, a Betty Trask Award and numerous other prizes. His second novel, Waterline, about a former shipbuilder grieving the death of his wife in Glasgow, was published to critical acclaim in 2011. His short stories have been published in Prospect, Esquire, Dazed & Confused, the Sunday Times, on BBC Radio 3 and in Granta. In this podcast, he spoke to Yuka Igarashi about how he evokes place and inhabits characters in his writing; the difference between his approaches to short stories and novels; and what it means to him to be part of the Best Young British Novelist list. He also discusses his work on a new novel, which began as a story published in Granta: Britain.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/93354874 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:43:49 +0100 1204 60 full false Nadifa Mohamed: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 59 Nadifa Mohamed: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 59 Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Nadifa Mohamed. Mohamed was born in Somalia and moved to Britain in 1986. Here she spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about how her first novel, Black Mamba Boy (which won the Betty Trask Award), was inspired by her father’s journey to the UK from Somalia, and how that process brought them closer together. They also spoke about her arrival from Somalia, growing up in Tooting and how she believed from a young age that cats were spies for the government. ‘Filsan’, in the issue, is an excerpt from her new novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US. You can also watch a specially commissioned short film in which Mohamed visits Shepherd’s Bush Market and explains why she wants to be the griot of London.

]]> Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Nadifa Mohamed. Mohamed was born in Somalia and moved to Britain in 1986. Here she spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about how her first novel, Black Mamba Boy (which won the Betty Trask Award), was inspired by her father’s journey to the UK from Somalia, and how that process brought them closer together. They also spoke about her arrival from Somalia, growing up in Tooting and how she believed from a young age that cats were spies for the government. ‘Filsan’, in the issue, is an excerpt from her new novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US. You can also watch a specially commissioned short film in which Mohamed visits Shepherd’s Bush Market and explains why she wants to be the griot of London.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/93338466 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:34:24 +0100 1918 59 full false Sunjeev Sahota: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 58 Sunjeev Sahota: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 58 Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Sunjeev Sahota. Sahota was born in Derby and currently lives in Leeds with his wife and daughter. His first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in 2011. ‘Arrivals’, in the issue, is an excerpt from The Year of the Runaways, his unfinished second novel, forthcoming from Picador. Here Sahota spoke to Ellah Allfrey about his work, finding Midnight’s Children in an airport bookshop and having a day job.

]]> Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Sunjeev Sahota. Sahota was born in Derby and currently lives in Leeds with his wife and daughter. His first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in 2011. ‘Arrivals’, in the issue, is an excerpt from The Year of the Runaways, his unfinished second novel, forthcoming from Picador. Here Sahota spoke to Ellah Allfrey about his work, finding Midnight’s Children in an airport bookshop and having a day job.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/93217713 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:09:22 +0100 1368 58 full false Ben Markovits: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 57 Ben Markovits: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 57 Benjamin Markovits is the author of six books: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter and Playing Days as well as a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron — Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, and Childish Loves. He is also the only Granta Best of Young Novelists who is known to be able to dunk. In this podcast with Yuka Igarashi, he discusses his time playing minor-league basketball for a team in southern Germany, and the ways in which this and his other experiences inform his work as a writer. He also talks about his new novel, extracted in the issue, about a group of university friends who get involved in a scheme to regenerate Detroit.

]]> Benjamin Markovits is the author of six books: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter and Playing Days as well as a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron — Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, and Childish Loves. He is also the only Granta Best of Young Novelists who is known to be able to dunk. In this podcast with Yuka Igarashi, he discusses his time playing minor-league basketball for a team in southern Germany, and the ways in which this and his other experiences inform his work as a writer. He also talks about his new novel, extracted in the issue, about a group of university friends who get involved in a scheme to regenerate Detroit.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/93189741 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:41:21 +0100 1838 57 full false Helen Oyeyemi: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 56 Helen Oyeyemi: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 56 In our latest instalment of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, we speak to Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Girl and The Opposite House. Her third novel, White is for Witching, was awarded a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and her fourth, Mr Fox, won the 2012 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award. ‘Boy, Snow, Bird’, in the issue, is an excerpt from a new novel of the same title, published in 2014 by Picador in the UK and Riverhead in the US. Here Oyeyemi spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the joys of writing from a male perspective, the role of magic in her work, some of her influences from Alfred Hitchcock to Jeanette Winterson and how as a young girl she would write alternate endings in the margins of the classics.

]]> In our latest instalment of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, we speak to Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi is the author of The Icarus Girl and The Opposite House. Her third novel, White is for Witching, was awarded a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and her fourth, Mr Fox, won the 2012 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award. ‘Boy, Snow, Bird’, in the issue, is an excerpt from a new novel of the same title, published in 2014 by Picador in the UK and Riverhead in the US. Here Oyeyemi spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the joys of writing from a male perspective, the role of magic in her work, some of her influences from Alfred Hitchcock to Jeanette Winterson and how as a young girl she would write alternate endings in the margins of the classics.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/93030757 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:45:45 +0100 2013 56 full false Adam Thirlwell: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 55 Adam Thirlwell: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 55 Our latest instalment of podcasts for our Best of Young British Novelist features Adam Thirlwell. Thirlwell is the author of the novels Politics and The Escape, the novella Kapow!, and a project with international novels that includes an essay-book, Miss Herbert and a compendium of translations edited for McSweeney’s. He was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists back in 2003. Here she spoke to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about sex, history, translation, using tempo in novels and how his writing has evolved over the past decade.

]]> Our latest instalment of podcasts for our Best of Young British Novelist features Adam Thirlwell. Thirlwell is the author of the novels Politics and The Escape, the novella Kapow!, and a project with international novels that includes an essay-book, Miss Herbert and a compendium of translations edited for McSweeney’s. He was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists back in 2003. Here she spoke to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about sex, history, translation, using tempo in novels and how his writing has evolved over the past decade.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/92619612 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:40:25 +0100 2029 55 full false Sarah Hall: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 54 Sarah Hall: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 54 In our latest installment of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, we speak to Sarah Hall. Hall was born in Cumbria and lives in Norwich. She is the multiple-prize-winning author of four novels: Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army (published in the US as Daughters of the North) and How to Paint a Dead Man; a collection of short stories, The Beautiful Indifference, original radio dramas and poetry. Here she spoke to Granta’s Saskia Vogel about wolves, tattoos and the wilds of Cumbria.

]]> In our latest installment of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, we speak to Sarah Hall. Hall was born in Cumbria and lives in Norwich. She is the multiple-prize-winning author of four novels: Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army (published in the US as Daughters of the North) and How to Paint a Dead Man; a collection of short stories, The Beautiful Indifference, original radio dramas and poetry. Here she spoke to Granta’s Saskia Vogel about wolves, tattoos and the wilds of Cumbria.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/92471322 Thu, 16 May 2013 14:49:21 +0100 2156 54 full false Xiaolu Guo: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 53 Xiaolu Guo: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 53 Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Xiaolu Guo. Guo studied at the Beijing Film Academy and received her MA from the National Film School in London. She has published seven novels in both English and Chinese. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her other novels include UFO in Her Eyes and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. She directed the award-winning films, She, a Chinese and Once Upon a Time Proletrian. 'Interim Zone', in the issue, is an excerpt from I Am China, her new novel forthcoming from Chatto & Windus in the UK. Here she spoke to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her experience of growing up in rural China, her move to writing in English and becoming an East Ender.

]]> Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Xiaolu Guo. Guo studied at the Beijing Film Academy and received her MA from the National Film School in London. She has published seven novels in both English and Chinese. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her other novels include UFO in Her Eyes and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. She directed the award-winning films, She, a Chinese and Once Upon a Time Proletrian. 'Interim Zone', in the issue, is an excerpt from I Am China, her new novel forthcoming from Chatto & Windus in the UK. Here she spoke to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her experience of growing up in rural China, her move to writing in English and becoming an East Ender.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/91967369 Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:17 +0100 1893 53 full false David Szalay: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 52 David Szalay: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 52 Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with David Szalay. Szalay was born in Canada; his family moved to the UK soon after, and he has lived here ever since. He has published three novels: London and the South-East, The Innocent and Spring. He is currently working on a number of new projects –‘Europa’, which appears in the issue, is an excerpt from one of these. He spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about how spending time in Hungary paradoxically makes it easier to write about London, his years trying to live off betting on horses and how memory informs his work.

]]> Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with David Szalay. Szalay was born in Canada; his family moved to the UK soon after, and he has lived here ever since. He has published three novels: London and the South-East, The Innocent and Spring. He is currently working on a number of new projects –‘Europa’, which appears in the issue, is an excerpt from one of these. He spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about how spending time in Hungary paradoxically makes it easier to write about London, his years trying to live off betting on horses and how memory informs his work.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/91250776 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:14:17 +0100 2434 52 full false Joanna Kavenna: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 51 Joanna Kavenna: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 51 Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Joanna Kavenna. Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. She is the author of three novels: Inglorious, The Birth of Love and Come to the Edge, and one work of non-fiction, The Ice Museum. In 2008 she was awarded the Orange Prize for New Writing. ‘Tomorrow’, which appears in the issue, is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel. Here she spoke to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her incurable wander-lust, genre-hopping and why Nietzsche was wrong about the ordinary man.

]]> Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Joanna Kavenna. Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. She is the author of three novels: Inglorious, The Birth of Love and Come to the Edge, and one work of non-fiction, The Ice Museum. In 2008 she was awarded the Orange Prize for New Writing. ‘Tomorrow’, which appears in the issue, is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel. Here she spoke to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her incurable wander-lust, genre-hopping and why Nietzsche was wrong about the ordinary man.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/91085143 Tue, 07 May 2013 11:55:30 +0100 1486 51 full false Naomi Alderman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 50 Naomi Alderman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 50 In the latest Granta Podcast we bring you an interview with Best of Young British Novelist, Naomi Alderman. Described by Rachel Seiffert as ‘someone who can do funny’, Alderman is the author of three novels: Disobedience, The Lessons and The Liars’ Gospel. She writes and designs computer games and is co-creator of Zombies, Run!, the best-selling iPhone fitness game and audio adventure. A professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, she has been paired with Margaret Atwood in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Here, Alderman speaks to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her engagement with the world around her and the joys of writing to genre. ‘Soon and in Our Days’, which is published in the issue, is a new story.

]]> In the latest Granta Podcast we bring you an interview with Best of Young British Novelist, Naomi Alderman. Described by Rachel Seiffert as ‘someone who can do funny’, Alderman is the author of three novels: Disobedience, The Lessons and The Liars’ Gospel. She writes and designs computer games and is co-creator of Zombies, Run!, the best-selling iPhone fitness game and audio adventure. A professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, she has been paired with Margaret Atwood in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Here, Alderman speaks to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her engagement with the world around her and the joys of writing to genre. ‘Soon and in Our Days’, which is published in the issue, is a new story.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/89993547 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:34:38 +0100 1887 50 full false Taiye Selasi: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 49 Taiye Selasi: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 49 Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Taiye Selasi. Selasi was born in London to Nigerian and Ghanaian parents. She made her fiction debut in Granta in 2011 with ‘The Sex Lives of African Girls’, which was selected for Best American Short Stories in 2012. Her first novel, Ghana Must Go, was published in March 2013. Here she spoke to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.

]]> Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Taiye Selasi. Selasi was born in London to Nigerian and Ghanaian parents. She made her fiction debut in Granta in 2011 with ‘The Sex Lives of African Girls’, which was selected for Best American Short Stories in 2012. Her first novel, Ghana Must Go, was published in March 2013. Here she spoke to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/89152455 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:01:35 +0100 1526 49 full false Evie Wyld: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 48 Evie Wyld: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 48 Continuing a series of podcasts on our Best of Young British Novelists 4, today we bring you an interview with Evie Wyld. Wyld’s first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, which follows the lives of two men, Frank and Leon, who live decades apart but on the same wild coastline in Queensland, Australia, and was shortlisted for numerous awards and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel All the Birds, Singing, is excerpted in the issue. Here Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.

]]> Continuing a series of podcasts on our Best of Young British Novelists 4, today we bring you an interview with Evie Wyld. Wyld’s first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, which follows the lives of two men, Frank and Leon, who live decades apart but on the same wild coastline in Queensland, Australia, and was shortlisted for numerous awards and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel All the Birds, Singing, is excerpted in the issue. Here Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/88425703 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:29:58 +0100 2613 48 full false Adam Foulds: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 47 Adam Foulds: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 47 Best of Young British Novelist Adam Foulds, the author of two novels including Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze and the Costa Book Award winning narrative poem The Broken Word, spoke to John Freeman about how he wanted to be a scientist before discovering writing, his time working in a warehouse as a forklift truck driver, why his work often focuses on moments of existential crisis and the English teachers who encouraged his writing and were surprised to receive a hefty manuscript shortly afterwards.

]]> Best of Young British Novelist Adam Foulds, the author of two novels including Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze and the Costa Book Award winning narrative poem The Broken Word, spoke to John Freeman about how he wanted to be a scientist before discovering writing, his time working in a warehouse as a forklift truck driver, why his work often focuses on moments of existential crisis and the English teachers who encouraged his writing and were surprised to receive a hefty manuscript shortly afterwards.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/88126825 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:17:17 +0100 2702 47 full false James Lasdun: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 46 James Lasdun: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 46 James Lasdun talks about his most recent memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, about being stalked by a fomer writng student.

]]> James Lasdun talks about his most recent memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, about being stalked by a fomer writng student.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/81048323 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:36:36 +0000 1795 46 full false Colin Robinson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 45 Colin Robinson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 45 Colin Robinson reads from his memoir 'Paddleball' in Granta 122: Betrayal and discusses how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a game in New York, and how gym culture has changed the way we see our bodies. 

]]> Colin Robinson reads from his memoir 'Paddleball' in Granta 122: Betrayal and discusses how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a game in New York, and how gym culture has changed the way we see our bodies. 

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/76804853 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:21:32 +0000 2132 45 full false Mohsin Hamid: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 44 Mohsin Hamid: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 44 The author of 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman about the extract from his latest novel 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia', extracted in the new issue of Granta, Betrayal.

]]> The author of 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman about the extract from his latest novel 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia', extracted in the new issue of Granta, Betrayal.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/75151861 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:45:44 +0000 2598 44 full false Sean Borodale: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 43 Sean Borodale: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 43 Granta New Poet Sean Borodale discusses his debut collection Bee Journal, shortlisted for he TS Eliot prize, with online editor Ted Hodgkinson.

]]> Granta New Poet Sean Borodale discusses his debut collection Bee Journal, shortlisted for he TS Eliot prize, with online editor Ted Hodgkinson.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/70366933 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:14:10 +0000 2831 43 full false Robert Olen Butler: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 42 Robert Olen Butler: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 42 Robert Olen Butler reads his story 'Banyan' and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how memory can be like compost and why every story is a search for an identity.

]]> Robert Olen Butler reads his story 'Banyan' and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how memory can be like compost and why every story is a search for an identity.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/70366186 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:07:40 +0000 2870 42 full false Michel Laub: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 41 Michel Laub: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 41 Michel Laub reads from his story in Best of Young Brazilian Novelists and discusses trespassing and fathers.

]]> Michel Laub reads from his story in Best of Young Brazilian Novelists and discusses trespassing and fathers.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/69792040 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:39:20 +0000 1457 41 full false Vinicius Jatoba & Jethro Soutar: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 40 Vinicius Jatoba & Jethro Soutar: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 40 Best of Young Brazilian Novelist Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar on the challenges and intimacy of translation.

]]> Best of Young Brazilian Novelist Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar on the challenges and intimacy of translation.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/69160414 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:13:06 +0000 2067 40 full false Deborah Levy: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 39 Deborah Levy: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 39 Deborah Levy spoke to Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel, Swimming Home.

]]> Deborah Levy spoke to Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel, Swimming Home.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/63994656 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:19:14 +0100 2598 39 full false Alison Moore: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 38 Alison Moore: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 38 Alison Moore talks to John Freeman about her debut novel, The Lighthouse, which was shortlisted for the Man Booke Prize. 

]]> Alison Moore talks to John Freeman about her debut novel, The Lighthouse, which was shortlisted for the Man Booke Prize. 

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/63861263 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:02:46 +0100 1110 38 full false Jeet Thayil: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 37 Jeet Thayil: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 37 Jeet Thayil talks to Ted Hodgkinson abot his Booker shortisted novel, Narcopolis.

]]> Jeet Thayil talks to Ted Hodgkinson abot his Booker shortisted novel, Narcopolis.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/63747296 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:39:47 +0100 2093 37 full false Tan Twan Eng: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 36 Tan Twan Eng: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 36 Booker shortlisted author Tan Twan Eng talks to John Freeman about The Garden of Eveing Mists.

]]> Booker shortlisted author Tan Twan Eng talks to John Freeman about The Garden of Eveing Mists.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/63632393 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:10:15 +0100 1581 36 full false D.T. Max: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 35 D.T. Max: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 35 D.T. Max on his biography: 'Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace'.

]]> D.T. Max on his biography: 'Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace'.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/62641995 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:40:59 +0100 3056 35 full false Claire Vaye Watkins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 34 Claire Vaye Watkins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 34 Claire Vaye Watkins on her debut story collection Battleborn, finding ritual in relationships and drawing inspiration from cartoons, mythology and Paul Simon.

]]> Claire Vaye Watkins on her debut story collection Battleborn, finding ritual in relationships and drawing inspiration from cartoons, mythology and Paul Simon.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/56146665 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:16:15 +0100 1699 34 full false Peter Stamm: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 33 Peter Stamm: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 33 Pete Stamm reads from his novel Seven Years and discusses imagining his characters as buildings and whether people, in life and in his fiction, can change.

]]> Pete Stamm reads from his novel Seven Years and discusses imagining his characters as buildings and whether people, in life and in his fiction, can change.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/53382933 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:02:42 +0100 1567 33 full false Jo Shapcott & George Szirtes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 32 Jo Shapcott & George Szirtes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 32 Poets Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes on their poems inspired by Titian's interpetations of Ovid.

]]> Poets Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes on their poems inspired by Titian's interpetations of Ovid.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/52715139 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:24:13 +0100 2557 32 full false Sam Byers: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 31 Sam Byers: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 31 Sam Byers talks about being introduced in Granta 119: Britain, turning office life into fiction and writing women.

]]> Sam Byers talks about being introduced in Granta 119: Britain, turning office life into fiction and writing women.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/51248084 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:10:45 +0100 2674 31 full false Rachel Seiffert: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 30 Rachel Seiffert: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 30 Rachel Seiffert talks to Yuka Igarashi about her new fiction in the Britain issue.

]]> Rachel Seiffert talks to Yuka Igarashi about her new fiction in the Britain issue.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/49765393 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:50:42 +0100 1623 30 full false Mark Haddon: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 29 Mark Haddon: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 29 Mark Haddon, author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' talks about his latest novel, 'The Red House' and his story in Granta 119: Britain, 'The Gun'.

]]> Mark Haddon, author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' talks about his latest novel, 'The Red House' and his story in Granta 119: Britain, 'The Gun'.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/46789077 Fri, 18 May 2012 14:34:45 +0100 2443 29 full false Cynan Jones: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 28 Cynan Jones: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 28 Cynan Jones on writing about adolesence, what we can learn from animals and why he doesn't want to be seen as a Welsh writer.

]]> Cynan Jones on writing about adolesence, what we can learn from animals and why he doesn't want to be seen as a Welsh writer.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/45723492 Tue, 08 May 2012 18:32:06 +0100 1906 28 full false Mo Yan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 27 Mo Yan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 27 Mo Yan talks to John Freeman at the London Book Fair about writing strong women and avoiding censorship.

]]> Mo Yan talks to John Freeman at the London Book Fair about writing strong women and avoiding censorship.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/43665548 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:04:12 +0100 1253 27 full false Andrés Neuman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 26 Andrés Neuman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 26 Andres Neuman reads from his novel The Traveller of the Century and discusses translation, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using a post modern aesthetic to tell an epic love story.

]]> Andres Neuman reads from his novel The Traveller of the Century and discusses translation, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using a post modern aesthetic to tell an epic love story.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/42110998 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:50:28 +0100 3461 26 full false Jeanette Winterson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 25 Jeanette Winterson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 25 Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story 'All I Know About Gertrude Stein' from Granta 115: The F Word. She also talks to Saskia Vogel about the line between truth and fiction and the pleasures of Twitter.

]]> Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story 'All I Know About Gertrude Stein' from Granta 115: The F Word. She also talks to Saskia Vogel about the line between truth and fiction and the pleasures of Twitter.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/40584011 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:42:07 +0000 1680 25 full false John Barth: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 24 John Barth: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 24 Live recording of John Barth reading his essay 'The End?' from Exit Strategies and discussing his career, discovering Tristram Shandy, what happened to postmodernism and ways of encouraging the muse to pay a visit.

]]> Live recording of John Barth reading his essay 'The End?' from Exit Strategies and discussing his career, discovering Tristram Shandy, what happened to postmodernism and ways of encouraging the muse to pay a visit.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/38451355 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:50:31 +0000 2821 24 full false Jon McGregor: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 23 Jon McGregor: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 23 Jon McGregor talks about reworking his first published story ‘What the Sky Sees’ from the female perspective and reads from both the original and updated version, ‘In Winter the Sky’. 

]]> Jon McGregor talks about reworking his first published story ‘What the Sky Sees’ from the female perspective and reads from both the original and updated version, ‘In Winter the Sky’. 

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/33992709 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:09:15 +0000 2228 23 full false Don DeLillo & Paul Auster: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 22 Don DeLillo & Paul Auster: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 22 Don DeLillo and Paul Auster read from their work in Granta 117: Horror and discuss writing about 'impoverished characters' and living and writing about New York.

]]> Don DeLillo and Paul Auster read from their work in Granta 117: Horror and discuss writing about 'impoverished characters' and living and writing about New York.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/29453694 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:26:10 +0000 2686 22 full false Binyavanga Wainaina: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 21 Binyavanga Wainaina: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 21 Binyavanga Wainaina talks to Ellah Allfrey about his memoir 'One Day I Will Write About This Place', managing the expectations of an African readership and what to do with a negative review. 

]]> Binyavanga Wainaina talks to Ellah Allfrey about his memoir 'One Day I Will Write About This Place', managing the expectations of an African readership and what to do with a negative review. 

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/28260969 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:22:49 +0000 1702 21 full false Will Self & Mark Doty: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 20 Will Self & Mark Doty: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 20 A recording from the London launch of Granta 117: Horror, featuring readings from contributors Mark Doty and Will Self; their discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and the questions and answers with the audience at Foyles bookshop.

]]> A recording from the London launch of Granta 117: Horror, featuring readings from contributors Mark Doty and Will Self; their discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and the questions and answers with the audience at Foyles bookshop.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/27155559 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:17:42 +0000 3569 20 full false Robert Coover: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 19 Robert Coover: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 19 Robert Coover reads his story ‘Vampire’ (available now on granta.com) and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about the intersection of myth and the modern world.

]]> Robert Coover reads his story ‘Vampire’ (available now on granta.com) and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about the intersection of myth and the modern world.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/25823386 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:03:50 +0100 2539 19 full false Lavinia Greenlaw: The Granta Podcast, Episode 18 Lavinia Greenlaw: The Granta Podcast, Episode 18 Lavinia Greenlaw: The Granta Podcast, Episode 18 by Granta Magazine

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]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/480237387 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:00:00 +0100 1733 18 full false Philip Oltermann: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 12 Philip Oltermann: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 12 Philip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.

]]> Philip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.

]]> Granta Magazine tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/308826451 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:00:00 +0100 1393 12 full false Elizabeth McCracken: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 2 Elizabeth McCracken: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 2 This week John Freeman spoke to Best Young American Novelist Elizabeth McCracken about her works-in-progress, a novel that broke up into six short stories, and her contribution to Granta’s latest issue, ‘Going Back’ – a story called ‘Property’.

]]> This week John Freeman spoke to Best Young American Novelist Elizabeth McCracken about her works-in-progress, a novel that broke up into six short stories, and her contribution to Granta’s latest issue, ‘Going Back’ – a story called ‘Property’.

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