Little Atoms 912 - James Shapiro's The Playbook
James Shapiro, who teaches English at Columbia University in New York, is author of several books, including 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (winner of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize in...
8 Aug 202428min
Little Atoms 911 - Clare Beams' The Garden
Clare Beams is the author of the novel The Illness Lesson, which was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,and the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which won the Bard ...
2 Aug 202432min
Little Atoms 910 - Ralf Webb's Strange Relations
Ralf Webb is the author of Rotten Days in Late Summer, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. His poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in Fantastic Man, Granta, the Guardian and the Lo...
25 Jul 202442min
Little Atoms 909 - Hanna Pylväinen's The End Of Drum-Time
Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novel We Sinners, which received a Whiting Award and a Balcones Fiction Prize. To research The End of Drum-Time, her second novel, which she talks to Neil Denny ab...
18 Jul 202429min
Little Atoms 908 - Adam Higginbotham's Challenger
Adam Higginbotham is a British writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of Midnight In Chernobyl, and in today's episo...
15 Jul 202433min
Little Atoms 907 - Rebecca Watson's I Will Crash
Rebecca Watson is an Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer's ten best debut novelists of 2021. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she w...
11 Jul 202428min
Little Atoms 906 - Alan Murrin's The Coast Road
Alan Murrin is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story, "The Wake," won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. His debut ...
4 Jul 202428min
Little Atoms 905 - Yael Van Der Wouden's The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, "On (Not) Reading Ann...
27 Jun 202435min
