Little Atoms

Alan Murrin   is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story, "The Wake," won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. His debut novel  The Coast Road  which he discussed with Neil Denny in this episode of Little Atoms was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction prize. Murrin is also the recipient of an Irish Art...

Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, "On (Not) Reading Anne Frank", has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel  The Safekeep. Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Jon Savage is the author of  England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock  and  Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945 . On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julia Armfield's work has been published in  Granta ,  The White Review  and  Best British Short Stories  2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the  Sunday Times  Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the  White Review  Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the autho...

Noreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her memoir  A Flat Place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clare Pollard   is an award-winning poet and playwright based in London. She is the author of five poetry collections and the former Editor of the  Modern Poetry in Translation  magazine .  Her first novel,  Delphi  , was published by Fig Tree in 2022. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her second novel, The Modern Fairies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Kevin Barry is the author of four novels and three story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the  Sunday Times  EFG Short Story Award and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the  New Yorker ,  Granta  and elsewhere. His novel,  Night Boat to Tangier ,was an Irish number o...

Rachel Khong is the author of  Goodbye, Vitamin,  winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR;  O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue;  and  Esquire . Her work has appeared in  The New York Times Book Review, The Cut, The Guardian, The Paris Review,  and Tin House.  In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event spa...

Ayana Mathis's first novel,  The Twelve Tribes of Hattie  was a  New York Times  best seller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the  The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica,  and  Rolling Stone . Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her long-await...

Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in  Electric Literature ,  Catapult ,  Somesuch Stories  and  The Willowherb Review ,among others. She was the winner of the 2022  Harper's Bazaar  Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. in this week's show she talks to Neil Denny a...

Orlando Whitfield graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2009. He started dealing art while still a student, and worked in and around the art market for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the  Paris Review  and the  White Review . On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his first book  All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art . Hosted on Acast....

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels  The Essex Serpent, Melmoth,  and  After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Enlightenment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Francesca De Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels, published in more than 20 languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. On this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about Saltblood, an epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of the infamous female...

Niamh Mulvey's first book, the short story collection Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador in June 2022. Her short fiction has been published in  The Stinging Fly ,  Banshee  and  Southword  and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. In this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel  The Ame...

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection  Constellations: Reflections from Life  was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. In today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her debut nove...

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book,  Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,  won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the  Guardian  First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second,  This is Not Propaganda,...

Stuart Turton's debut novel,  The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A  Sunday Times  bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in t...

Michael Donkor was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. His first novel,  Hold,  was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prizes. He is a frequent contributor to outlets including the  Guardian , the  TLS and  the  Independe...

Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel  Fake Accounts . Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the  New Yorker , the  New York Times,  the  London Review of Books ,  Harper's , the  Guardian  and other publications. She lives in Berlin. on today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of essays No Judgement: On Being Critical ....

Helen Oyeyemi talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Parasol Against The Axe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tracy King talks to Neil Denny about her memoir Learning To Think. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rachel Cockerell talks to Neil Denny about her first work of non-fiction Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Hannah Durkin talks to Neil Denny about her new book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leo Vardiashvili joins Neil Denny to talk about his debut novel Hard By A Great Forest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Molly McGhee talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.