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Granta Magazine
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. Our podcasts bring you readings and in-depth discussions with highly acclaimed authors and rising stars from the quarterly magazine of new writing.
Episodes
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Jun 29, 2012 • 45min
Sam Byers: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 31
Sam Byers talks about being introduced in Granta 119: Britain, turning office life into fiction and writing women.
Jun 15, 2012 • 27min
Rachel Seiffert: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 30
Rachel Seiffert talks to Yuka Igarashi about her new fiction in the Britain issue.
May 18, 2012 • 41min
Mark Haddon: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 29
Mark Haddon, author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' talks about his latest novel, 'The Red House' and his story in Granta 119: Britain, 'The Gun'.
May 8, 2012 • 32min
Cynan Jones: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 28
Cynan Jones on writing about adolesence, what we can learn from animals and why he doesn't want to be seen as a Welsh writer.
Apr 19, 2012 • 21min
Mo Yan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 27
Mo Yan talks to John Freeman at the London Book Fair about writing strong women and avoiding censorship.
Apr 5, 2012 • 58min
Andrés Neuman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 26
Andres Neuman reads from his novel The Traveller of the Century and discusses translation, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using a post modern aesthetic to tell an epic love story.
Mar 22, 2012 • 28min
Jeanette Winterson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 25
Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story 'All I Know About Gertrude Stein' from Granta 115: The F Word. She also talks to Saskia Vogel about the line between truth and fiction and the pleasures of Twitter.
Mar 2, 2012 • 47min
John Barth: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 24
Live recording of John Barth reading his essay 'The End?' from Exit Strategies and discussing his career, discovering Tristram Shandy, what happened to postmodernism and ways of encouraging the muse to pay a visit.
Jan 20, 2012 • 37min
Jon McGregor: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 23
Jon McGregor talks about reworking his first published story ‘What the Sky Sees’ from the female perspective and reads from both the original and updated version, ‘In Winter the Sky’.
Dec 1, 2011 • 45min
Don DeLillo & Paul Auster: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 22
Don DeLillo and Paul Auster read from their work in Granta 117: Horror and discuss writing about 'impoverished characters' and living and writing about New York.
