Little Atoms 607 - Madeline Stevens' Devotion
Madeline Stevens joins Neil to talk about her first novel, Devotion. They discuss the drafts and graft that come before a debut novel, how Madeline's seven years spent working as a nanny in New York i...
30 Sep 201929min
Little Atoms 606 - Julian Hoffman's Irreplaceable
Julian Hoffman joins Neil to talk about his latest book Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. They discuss the aborted attempt by Boris Johnson to build an airport on the marshland of Kent...
23 Sep 201932min
Little Atoms 605 - Niven Govinden's This Brutal House
Niven Govinden joins Neil to talk about his new novel This Brutal House, about family and protest in the vogue ball community of 1980s New York. Govinden's previous novels include All The Days And Nig...
16 Sep 201936min
Little Atoms 604 - Ben Smith's Doggerland
Ben Smith is a lecturer in creative writing at Plymouth University, specializing in environmental literature and focusing particularly on oceans, climate change and the ‘Anthropocene’. He joined Neil ...
12 Sep 201929min
Little Atoms 603 - Richard Osmond's Rock, Paper, Scissors
Poet Richard Osmond joins Neil to talk about his latest collection, Rock, Paper, Scissors, inspired by his experiences during the London Bridge terrorist attack on 3rd June 2017. Hosted on Acast. See ...
10 Sep 201944min
Little Atoms 602 - Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion is her first book. She joined Neil to talk about how we're all forced to...
2 Sep 201928min
Little Atoms 601 - Rachel DeLoache Williams' My Friend Anna
Rachel DeLoache Williams is an ex-Vanity Fair photo editor and author of My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress. She tells Neil about her friendship with Anna Delvey, the 'Russian heiress' w...
26 Aug 201930min
Little Atoms 600 - Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands
It's the 600th Little Atoms! and Neil welcomes Laura Cumming back to the show. Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her book, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez,...
19 Aug 201936min
