Little Atoms 558 - Kristen Ghodsee's Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Kristen R. Ghodsee was travelling in Europe, and spent the summer of 1990 witnessing first-hand the initial hope and euphoria that followed the sudden and unexpected...
12 Feb 201935min
Little Atoms 557 - Georgina Harding's Land of the Living
Georgina Harding is the author of three previous novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. ...
5 Feb 201928min
Little Atoms 556 - Simon Garfield's In Miniature
Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including Timekeepers, A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Bri...
29 Jan 201931min
Little Atoms 555 - Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a cri...
22 Jan 201926min
Little Atoms 554 - Adam Weymouth's Kings of the Yukon
Adam Weymouth's work has been published by a wide variety of outlets including the Guardian, the Atlantic and the New Internationalist. His interest in the relationship between humans and the world ar...
15 Jan 201926min
Little Atoms 553 - Thea Lim's An Ocean of Minutes
Thea Lim’s novel An Ocean of Minutes is out now from Quercus/Hachette in the UK, Viking/Penguin Random House in Canada, and Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster in the US. Her writing has been published ...
8 Jan 201932min
From The Archive - Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation
To see in the New Year, here's a repeat of our Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh from August. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Mode...
1 Jan 201929min
From the Archive - Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt
For Christmas Day, here's a repeat of our interview from June 2018 with Adam Kay. Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film, including Mitchell & Webb and Very British Problems....
25 Dec 201837min
