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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 202128min
Little Atoms 674 - Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual
Francis Spufford returns to Little Atoms to talk to Neil about his new novel Light Perpetual. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2 Mars 202139min
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
