Little Atoms

Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer. He is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College, associate lecturer at Birkbeck College, and associate fellow of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research where he runs the European Jewish Research Archive. His previous books include Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community . His latest book is Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Li...

Anna Sherman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied Greek and Latin at Wellesley College and Oxford before moving to Tokyo in 2001.  The Bells of Old Tokyo  is her first book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard King is the author of the acclaimed  How Soon Is Now? , which was named  Sunday Times  Music Book of the Year, and Original Rockers . His writing has appeared in the  Observer ,  Vice ,  Guardian ,  Caught by the River  and many other publications. He was co-editor of  Loops , an occasional journal of music writing published jointly by Faber &am...

Wayétu Moore is the founder of One Moore Book and is a graduate of Howard University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. She teaches at the City University of New York's John Jay College and lives in Brooklyn.  She Would Be King  is her debut novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nathaniel Rich is the author of the novels  Odds Against Tomorrow  and  The Mayor’s Tongue . His short fiction has appeared   in  McSweeney’s ,  The Virginia Quarterly Review , and  VICE ,   among other publications. He is a writer at large for  The New York Times Magazine  and a regular contributor to  The New York Review of Books  and&n...

Pete Brown is a British author, journalist, blogger and broadcaster specialising in food and drink, especially the fun parts like beer and cider. His broad, fresh approach takes in social history, cultural commentary, travel writing, personal discovery and natural history, and his words are always delivered with the warmth and wit you'd expect from a great night down the pub. He writes f...

Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she wrote for the  Economist  as a staff writer. Her debut novel is  The Farm . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Born in 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed `unacceptable democratic tendencies'. He came to the United Kingdom, where he took a job with the BBC World Service. His works are banned in Uzbekistan. Several of his Russian-original novels have been published in English translation, includin...

Andrea Lawlor lives in Western Massachusetts and teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College. Lawlor is a fiction editor for  Fence  and the author of a chapbook,  Position Papers  (Factory Hollow Press, 2016).  Paul Takes The Form of A Mortal Girl  is their debut novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg born in Washington, DC. Through her work, she explores her interest in identity and otherness, the opportunities and traps of hindsight and hope, and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. An early draft of of her debut novel  Cygnet  was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asi...

Dan Richards is the co-author of  Holloway  (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood) and the author of  The Beechwood Airship Interviews  and  Climbing Days . He has written for the  Guardian ,  Harper’s Bazaar ,  Caught by the River ,  Monocle  and the  Quietus . He is an RLF Fellow at Bristol University. Dan's latest book is  O...

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of  The Children of Jocasta  and  The Amber Fury , which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a non-fiction book about Ancient History,  The Ancient Guide to Modern Life . She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics . In 201...

Iain Reid is the author of two critically acclaimed, award-winning books of nonfiction. His internationally bestselling debut novel,  I’m Thinking of Ending Things , has been published in more than twenty countries. Oscar-winner Charlie Kaufman is writing and directing a film based on the novel, which Reid will co-produce. His second novel,  Foe , was an instant bests...

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including  Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama  and  Lunar Park , and a collection of stories,  The Informers .  Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho  and  The Informers  have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, ...

Bev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for many years. She currently works as an organisational consultant in mental health and other services.  A Good Enough Mother is her debut novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella  ATTA , a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel,  I Hate the Internet , was a bestseller everywhere, doing especially well in Serbia. His second novel,  The Future Won't Be Long , wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but was pub...

Isabella Hammad was born in London. She won the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story 'Mr. Can’aan'. Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions and the Paris Review. The Parisian is her first novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Ashon   is the author of  Strange Labyrinth  (Granta, 2017) and two novels. He previously ran BIG DADA records where his artists included Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Kate Tempest and Diplo. Will's latest book is Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Temi Oh graduated from King’s College London in 2015 with a BSci in Neuroscience. While at KCL, Temi founded and ran a book-club called “Neuroscience-fiction”, where she led discussions about science-fiction books which focus on the brain. In 2016, she received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew up in the Midwestern United States and has a BS in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol (UK), and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. At age 31, Steve is wide...

A K Benjamin is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, specialising in diagnostics and acute rehab. Previously he was a screenwriter, spent two years as a contemplative monk and has worked at a number of NGOs, with homeless addicts, with gangs and with children with acquired and congenital neurological conditions. He no longer lives in the UK. A K Benjamin is not his real name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Hanna Jameson wrote her first book at the age of seventeen. Paul Rees of Q Magazine described her as writing like 'an angel on speed'. She has worked for the NHS and travelled the USA, Japan and Europe, developing a particular interest in the US, which led to her studying for a BA in American History. The Last is her fourth novel and her first for Penguin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Adam Foulds most recent books are In the Wolf's Mouth ; The Quickening Maze , which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature; and The Broken Word , which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His latest book is Dream Sequence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist.  Maggie & Me , his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4  Book of the Week  and  Sunday Times  Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the  Big Issue  and ...

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears , was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by short story collection, Children's Children , and a flash fiction anthology Postcard Stories . In 2016 she won the Harper's Bazaar short story competition and was shortlisted for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. The Fire St...