Little Atoms
Neil Denny
Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Nov 11, 2015 • 50min
Litle Atoms 396 Max Porter: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta. His first book Grief is the Thing With Feathers has been shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2015. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 5, 2015 • 1h 26min
Little Atoms 395 – Hanya Yanagihara & Antony Loewenstein
On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Man Booker shortlisted novelist Hanya Yanagihara on A Little Life and journalist Antony Loewenstein on Disaster Capitalism.Hanya Yanagihara is the author of The People in the Trees, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her latest novel A Little Life was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. She was until recently the Deputy Editor at the New York Times’ T Magazine, and she lives in New York City.Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentary maker and blogger who has written for the BBC, the Nation and the Washington Post. He’s a weekly Guardian columnist and the author of three best-selling books, My Israel Question,The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World. His latest book is Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe, and he’s currently working on a documentary about disaster capitalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 7, 2015 • 57min
Little Atoms 394 – Zoe Lambert & Emma Jane Unsworth Little Atoms Live
This week, a Live Little Atoms event. Authors Emma Jane Unsworth and Zoe Lambert in conversation with Neil Denny at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on Friday 25th September. Zoe Lambert is a Manchester based writer. She lectures in creative writing at Lancaster University, and has published numerous short stories in anthologies. Her debut […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 30, 2015 • 56min
Little Atoms 393 – Timothy Snyder & Black Earth
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history: Bloodlands won the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the Humanities and the literature award of the American […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 23, 2015 • 1h 7min
Little Atoms 392 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 Three
The last of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, ahead of the award ceremony on Thursday 24th September. This week Neil Denny talks with Matthew Cobb, and there’s a repeat of our interview with Alex Bellos from May 2014. The show also includes a short […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 16, 2015 • 59min
Little Atoms 391 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 Two
The second of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with David Adam, and there’s a repeat of our interview with Gaia Vince from August 2014. This show also marks the 10th anniversary of Little Atoms. We first broadcast on […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 9, 2015 • 58min
Little Atoms 390 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 One
The first of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with shortlisted authors Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe Mcfadden, and Jon Butterworth. Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 2, 2015 • 34min
Little Atoms 389 – Petina Gappah & The Book of Memory
Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. Her debut novel is The Book of Memory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 26, 2015 • 1h 1min
Little Atoms 388 – John Higgs & Stranger Than We Can Imagine
John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, and the novel The Brandy of the Damned. His latest book is Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 19, 2015 • 54min
Little Atoms 387 – Michela Wrong & Borderlines
Michela Wrong is a distinguished international journalist, and has worked as a foreign correspondent covering events across the African continent for Reuters, the BBC and the Financial Times. She writes regularly for Foreign Policy magazine and the Spectator. Based on her experiences in Africa, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, her first book, won the […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
