Little Atoms7 Feb 2017

452: Olivia Laing & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. Her latest book The Lonely City has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize.Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York, Harper's, the Believer, Artforum, and the Nation, among many other publications. Educated at Yale and Berkeley, he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World.

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From September 2022, Robert Harris talks to Neil about his novel Act of Oblivion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13 Aug 30min

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From March 2023, Laura Cumming talks to Neil about her book Thunderclap, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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From July 2023, Neil talks to Mark O'Connell about his book A Thread of Violence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Jul 28min

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From October 2022, Neil talks to Yiyun Li about her novel The Book of Goose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

16 Jul 30min

Little Atoms Archive - Kevin Barry's The Heart In Winter

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