Little Atoms 682 - Melanie Challenger's How To Be Animal
Melanie Challenger talks to Neil about her new book How To Be Animal, which combines popular science, history and moral philosophy in a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it...
1 Apr 202134min
Little Atoms 681 - Jess Walter's The Cold Millions
Jess Walter talks to Neil about his new novel The Cold Millions, which features union organising, riots and the suppression of protest. Set in Spokane in 1909, but seemingly ripped out of today's head...
29 Mar 202131min
Little Atoms 680 - Courttia Newland's A River Called Time
Courttia Newland is the author of The Scholar, Snakeskin and The Gospel According to Cane. He co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and his short stories have featured in various...
26 Mar 202127min
Little Atoms 679 - Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom
The Author of Homegoing Yaa Gyasi talks to Neil about the American opioid epidemic, finding meaning through both faith and science, and growing up in Alabama in her latest novel Transcendent Kingdom, ...
23 Mar 202130min
Little Atoms 678 - Kat Arney's Rebel Cell
Dr Kat Arney talks about how cancer breaks the rules, via naked mole rats, nazi scientists and chimney sweep's scrotums in her new book Rebel Cell. See her website for more details: https://www.rebelc...
19 Mar 202130min
Little Atoms 677 - Sebastian Barry's A Thousand Moons
For the week of St Patrick's Day Neil talks to the current Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry on the paperback release of his latest novel A Thousand Moons. Sebastian talks about finding his f...
16 Mar 202129min
Little Atoms 676 - Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets
Robert Jones, Jr. is a writer from Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned both his B.F.A. in creative writing and M.F.A. in fiction from Brooklyn College. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Essence a...
9 Mar 202132min
Little Atoms 675 - Rebecca Watson's little scratch
Rebecca Watson talks to Neil about her debut novel little scratch, which was published recently to critical acclaim. She is one of The Observer’s 10 best debut novelists of 2021. Watson writes for pub...
5 Mar 202128min
