Little Atoms

Kevin Barry talks to Neil about his novel The Heart In Winter . First broadcast in June 2024, and the 900th episode of Little Atoms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From back in September 2021, Neil talks to Lauren Groff about her novel Matrix. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First broadcast in January 2023, Bret Easton Ellis talks to Neil about his novel The Shards . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From March 2023, Neil talks to Alice Winn about her novel In Memoriam , which won the Waterstones Novel of the Year award, and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neil Denny talks to Adrian Chiles about his book The Good Drinker, from November 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ann Patchett is the author of novels, works of nonfiction, and children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize in the U.K., and the National Humanities Medal. TIME magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, wher...

Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain , his first novel, won the Booker Prize and both 'Debut of the Year' and 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction, among many other awards. His second nov...

Daniel Lavelle is an Orwell Prize-winning freelance feature writer from Manchester. His first book, Down and Out , was published in 2022 and won a Royal Society of Literature award for non-fiction writing. He has covered topics such as mental health, homelessness, and culture for the Guardian (for whom he co-authored the series ‘The Empty Doorway’), New Statesman and the Independent . He received...

Daniel Trilling writes about nationalism, migration and human rights for publications including the  London Review of Books , the  Guardian  and the  New York Times . His work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Political Book Awards and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book,&nbs...

Claire Fuller gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written five previous novels including:  Unsettled Ground , which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction,  Our Endless Numbered Days , which won the Desmond Elliott P...

Richard Byrne is a dramatist and journalist. He was the editor of The Wilson Quarterly from 2019 to 2021. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, Time, BookForum and Zona Motel. His music criticism includes liner notes for releases by R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo. His work as a dramatist includes two musicals: Nero/Pseudo (written with Jon Langford and Jim Elkington) and Co...

Angela Tomaski was born in Oxford and raised in Somerset with her four brothers and sisters. She has had a variety of different jobs, including as a waitress, cleaner, English teacher and activity coordinator in a care home. She has a daughter and two grandsons, and now lives in rural Dorset. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Infamous Gilberts ....

Sian Hughes is a writer who grew up in a small village in Cheshire. Her first collection of poetry The Missing was a Poetry Society Recommendation, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis and the Aldeburgh prizes, and won the Seamus Heaney Award. Sian's first novel Pearl was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 and shortlisted for The Authors' Club Best First...

Elizabeth Arnott is an award-winning writer and journalist and has written critically acclaimed historical fiction as Lizzie Pook. Her work has featured in publications including  The Sunday Times ,  The Guardian ,  The Telegraph , and  Stylist . On today’s episode of Little Atoms, she talks to Neil Denny about her new novel The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives . Host...

Sophie Mackintosh is the author of four novels, including  The Water Cure  and  Cursed Bread.  She has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize, has won a Betty Trask Award, and has been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has been published in  Granta, The White Review and  TANK  magazine among others. On t...

John Grindrod is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain , Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize for UK travel and nature writing), and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain . He hosts the podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Ne...

Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1945, but raised in Havana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became a writer, publishing two novels,  My Search for Warren Harding  (1983) and  Love Junkie  (1992). He later became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for  Sarasota Magazine . He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, F...

Isabel Waidner is the author of five novels – including  Sterling Karat Gold , which won the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and  Corey Fah Does Social Mobility  which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. They teach in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary University of London. On this...

Francis Spufford is the author of three novels and five works of non-fiction. His debut work of fiction was the historical novel  Golden Hill,  which won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for four others. His second novel,  Light Perpetual , was awarded the Encore Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. His third n...

James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about the reissue of his New York Times best-selling...

Alex Preston   is an award-winning author of five novels including  This Bleeding City ,  The Revelations ,  In Love and War  and  Winchelsea , as well as a book of non-fiction  As Kingfishers Catch Fire.  He writes regularly for the  New York Times,  the  Economist  and  Harper's Bazaar . He reviews books for the  Observer's &n...

Originally from Leicester, Manish Chauhan works as a finance lawyer and currently lives in East London. His short story, "Pieces", was shortlisted for the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award. His work has been shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize and the Exeter Short Story Competition. Early excerpts of  Belgrave Road  were longlisted for the Curtis Brown First Novel Award...

George Saunders   is the author of thirteen books, including the novel  Lincoln in the Bardo , which won the Booker Prize in 2017, and five collections of stories including  Tenth of December , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recent collection  Liberation Day  (selected by former President Obama has one of his ten favourite books of 2021 ) . Three...

Grace Murray was born in 2003 and grew up in Norwich. She has recently graduated from Edinburgh University, where she read English Literature and found time to write between her studies and two part-time jobs. Her short fiction has been published in  The London Magazine . On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil denny about her debut novel Blank Canvas, which   was written over...

Daniyal Mueenuddin graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. After winning a Fulbright scholarship to study in Norway, he practiced law in New York before returning to Khânpur, Pakistan to manage the family farm. He divides his time between Oslo and Pakistan. Stories in his collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and Salman Rushdie's Best Americ...