Little Atoms 649 - Sophie Mackintosh's Blue Ticket
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. Sophie talks to Neil about her "a bit speculative, a bit dystopi...
7 Sep 202025min
Little Atoms 648 - Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart talks to Neil about his Man Booker longlisted, Glasgow set debut novel Shuggie Bain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
31 Aug 202031min
Little Atoms 647 - Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff
Maria Konnikova talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Biggest Bluff, in which she sets out to study luck and instead becomes a professional poker player. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
24 Aug 202040min
From The Archive - Luke Turner's Out Of The Woods
Luke Turner is a writer and editor based in London. He co-founded the influential music website The Quietus where he runs a regular podcast and radio show. He has contributed to the Guardian, Dazed & ...
17 Aug 202027min
From The Archive - Chris Power's Mothers
Chris Power lives and works in London. His 'Brief Survey of the Short Story' has appeared in the Guardian since 2007. His fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and The Whit...
10 Aug 202040min
From The Archive - Amy Sackville's Painter To The King
Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to do an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. H...
3 Aug 202029min
Little Atoms 646 - Frances Cha's If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha is a former editor for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University MFA writing program, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. If I Had Your Face is h...
27 Jul 202021min
Little Atoms 645 - Jenny Kleeman's Sex Robots and Vegan Meat
Jenny Kleeman is a journalist and documentary-maker who has travelled the world finding extraordinary characters to turn into film, print and audio. She writes for the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday ...
20 Jul 202031min
