Little Atoms 673 - Sara Seager's The Smallest Lights in the Universe
Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and a professor of physics and planetary science at MIT. She talks about her new memoir The Smallest Lights in the Universe, about juggling being a MacArthur award win...
26 Feb 202127min
Little Atoms 672 - Max Porter's The Death of Francis Bacon
Max Porter is the author of Lanny, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Awa...
23 Feb 202128min
Little Atoms 671 - Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved On...
16 Feb 202141min
Little Atoms 670 Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment
Cal Flyn, author of the memoir Thicker Than Water, talks about her latest book Islands of Abandonment: Life In The Post-Human Landscape. She talks to Neil about her travels to post-industrial wastelan...
9 Feb 202138min
Little Atoms 669 - Jason Diakité's A Drop of Midnight
Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité is one of Sweden’s most well-known hip-hop artists. Born in Lund to American parents—an African American dad and a white mom—he has released eight solo albums and numerous sin...
2 Feb 202128min
Little Atoms 668 - Andrew Harding's These Are Not Gentle People
Andrew Harding is the BBC's Africa correspondent. He talks to Neil about his new book These Are Not Gentle People, about a crime that shook South Africa and split a community apart. Hosted on Acast. S...
29 Jan 202124min
Little Atoms 667 - Stuart Turton's The Devil And The Dark Water
Stuart Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers Nation...
26 Jan 202129min
Little Atoms 666 - Ivy Pochoda's These Women
Ivy Pochoda is the author of The Art of Disappearing, Visitation Street - a Guardian and Amazon best book of 2013 - and Wonder Valley, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and a winner of the Stran...
18 Jan 202133min
