Little Atoms

Luke Turner is a writer and editor based in London. He co-founded the influential music website The Quietus where he runs a regular podcast and radio show. He has contributed to the Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Vice, NME, Q Mojo, Monocle, Nowness and Somesuch Stories , among other publications. Out of the Woods is his first book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lewis Dartnell is a Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster. He has won several awards for his science writing, and contributes to the Guardian, the Times and the New Scientist. He has also written for television and appeared on BBC Horizon, Sky News, Wonders of the Universe, Stargazing Live, and the Sky At Night. His previous books include the bestseller The Knowledge:...

Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-English household in London, where she still lives. She has a BA in English from Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature at UCL. Yara is a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid, the only refuge run for and by Latin American women in the UK and has also given workshops on gender and power to teenage girls with feminist organisation Fearless Futures. Y...

Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, cultural theorist and lecturer based in London. He is the author of the books Destroy All Monsters , Welcome To Mars , and The Bright Labyrinth. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies throughout the world, and he has written and presented programs for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, NPS in the Netherlands, ABC Australia, and Resonance 104.4...

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1982. She grew up in Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of four previous books, most recently the highly acclaimed The Shadow of the Crescent Moon which was longlisted in 2014 for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Runaways . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers , which has been translated into twenty languages worldwide, and been made into a stage play starring Cillian Murphy. His latest book is Lanny , the story of a young boy, an elderly artist, and a mysterious spirit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the  London Review of Books , where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the  New Yorker . He has written four novels,  The Debt to Pleasure ,  Mr Phillips  and  Fragrant Harbour , and  Cap...

Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and commentator. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times , The Guardian , Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine , and her novels include Women Who Blow On Knots and The Time of Mute Swans. Her latest novel is How To Lose A Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Julia Shaw is a scientist in the Department of Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her academic work, teaching and role as an expert witness have focused on different ways of understanding criminal behaviour. Dr Shaw has consulted as an expert on criminal cases, delivered police-training and military workshops, and has evaluated offender diversion programs. She is also the co-founder...

Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her books include The Eichmann Trial, Denial: holocaust history on trial (a National Jewish Book Award-winner), Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory, and Beyond Belief: the American press and the coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. She lives in Atlan...

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 collapse of state socialism in the former Eastern Bloc. The political and economic chaos that followed inspired Ghodsee to pursue an academic career studying this upheaval, focusing on how ordinary p...

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 201 2 . Her first book was a word of non-fiction,  In Another Europe , recording a journey she made across Romania in 1988 during the worst times of the Ceausescu regime....

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 Britain,  The End of Innocence , won the Somerset Maugham prize. His latest book is In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World . Hosted on Acas...

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 critic at large at the  Los Angeles Times . His work has appeared in  The Best American Essays 2016 ,  The New York Times Magazine ,  Slate ,&nbs...

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 around them has led him to write on issues of climate change and environmentalism, and most recently, to the Yukon river and the stories of the communities living on its banks. He lives on a 100-year-ol...

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 by  the Paris Review, the Guardian, Salon, the National Post, LitHub, Electric Literature, the Millions, the Southampton Review, GRIST  and others. She has received mult...

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 Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection  Homesick for Another World . Her stories have been published in ...

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 . He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book  This Is Going To Hurt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

David Frye is a professor and historian, whose research has taken him around the world and involved him in numerous archaeological digs since receiving his PhD from Duke University. He has published extensively in international academic journals. He is the author of Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood & Brick . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Jackson is the author of  Mira Corpora , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in  Guernica ,  Vice , and  The Collagist , and five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award–winning Collapsable Giraffe theater company in New York City. His latest novel is Destroy All Monsters . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

This week Padraig Reidy talks to Paul Ewen. Paul Ewen is a New Zealand writer based in south London. His work has appeared in the British Council's  New Writing anthology, the   Guardian, the TES, Tank, and Five Dials. Paul's first novel,  Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author , was published by Galley Beggar Press in 2014. It went on to appear on numerous Books Of The Year lists,...

R. O. Kwon is the author of the novel The Incendiaries . Her writing is published in The Guardian , Vice , BuzzFeed , Time , Noon , Electric Literature , Playboy , and elsewhere. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Write...

Thomas Page McBee was ‘masculinity expert’ for  Vice  and the first trans man ever to box at Madison Square Garden. His essays and reportage have appeared in the  New York Times ,  Playboy ,  Glamour  and  Salon . He is the author of Man Alive , and most recently Amateur: A True Story About What Makes A Man . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Robert Olen Butler   is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , and sixteen other novels including  Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River,  and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process,  From Where You Dream.  He has twice won a National Maga...

Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book,  The Mirror , was described as ‘beautifully written . . . immersive . . . captivating’ by the  Guardian . As Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy, he created the flagship ‘Writing a Novel’ six-month course in 2009 and since then has helped hundreds of writers find their voice. He is also the author of Wri...