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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 16 days 10 hours 57 minutes
Little Atoms 609 - Lillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant
Lillian Li is from the D.C. metro area and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, Bon Appetit, and Jezebel. Her first novel Number One Chinese Restaurant was longlisted for the 2019 ...
Little Atoms 608 - Ben Fergusson's An Honest Man
Novelist Ben Fergusson joins Neil to talk about An Honest Man, the final book of his Berlin Trilogy. They discuss writing against the backdrop of 1989 Berlin, the summer after leaving school, and the novel's parallels between relationships, infide...
episode 607: Little Atoms 607 - Madeline Stevens' Devotion
Madeline Stevens joins Neil to talk about her first novel, Devotion. They discuss the drafts and graft that come before a debut novel, how Madeline's seven years spent working as a nanny in New York influenced her writing, and how what started out...
episode 606: Little Atoms 606 - Julian Hoffman's Irreplaceable
Julian Hoffman joins Neil to talk about his latest book Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. They discuss the aborted attempt by Boris Johnson to build an airport on the marshland of Kent's Hoo peninsula, what 'protection' r...
Little Atoms 605 - Niven Govinden's This Brutal House
Niven Govinden is the author of four previous novels, most recently All The Days And Nights which was longlisted for the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize. His second novel Graffiti My Soul...
episode 604: Little Atoms 604 - Ben Smith's Doggerland
Ben Smith lives in Cornwall and is a lecturer in creative writing at Plymouth University, specializing in environmental literature and focusing particularly on oceans, climate change and the ‘Anthropocene’. His first poetry pamphlet, Sky Burials, was p...
episode 603: Little Atoms 603 - Richard Osmond's Rock, Paper, Scissors
Poet Richard Osmond joins Neil to talk about his latest collection, Rock, Paper, Scissors, inspired by his experiences during the London Bridge terrorist attack on 3rd June 2017.
Little Atoms 602 - Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She grew up in Texas, attended the University of Virginia, and served in Kyrgyzstan in the Peace Corps. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. She was a cont...
episode 601: Little Atoms 601 - Rachel DeLoache Williams' My Friend Anna
Rachel DeLoache Williams is an ex-Vanity Fair photo editor and author of My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress. She tells Neil about her friendship with Anna Delvey, the 'Russian heiress' who deceived New York's art scene for ...
Little Atoms 600 - Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands
It's the 600th Little Atoms! and Neil welcomes Laura Cumming back to the show. Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her book, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, was Book of the Wee...