Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers

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Liam Bishop curating the best writers to help you with your writing

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Camille Bordas on making difficult topics funny and crafting sharp dialogue

    Camille Bordas is one heck of an exciting literary talent, and she’s joining me on the Rippling Pages to discuss her story collection, ONE SUN ONLY (Serpent’s Tail). What I loved about these stories is their wonderfully dry humour, empathetic narratives of flawed characters, and deeply woven observations, within the stories, about how fiction works.  Plaudits for Camille have come from George Saunders, Zadie Smith, and Percival Everett. She’s a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Other useful links to heighten your Rippling Pages experience Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages    1.30 - bad backs and teaching 4.00 - writing and talking about death  8.45 - creating character dynamics  11.10 - camille’s sociology background 12.45 - experimenting in stories and novels   15.10 - writing in French and English 17.40 - Rippling pages Patreon 19.55 - animation and jokes 22.15 - what animates a language 24.30 - writing dialogue  26.30 - misunderstanding ourselves  28.45 - illness and self growth  30.15 - plotting 33.30 - how sopranos helps with plotting  36.35 - recreating scenes from the sopranos 39.00 - acting and writing Reference Points Donald Barthelme  Delphine Horvilleur Karl Ove Knausgård Gwendoline Riley Katharina Volckmer    TV The Sopranos

    44 min

  2. 2 APR

    Bonus! Lucy Caldwell on annotated Hamlet and Easter Eggs

    It's Easter - and it's easter egg time. In this bonus content, you're going to hear a lot about Easter Eggs, but not the chocolate kind. Instead, we’re talking those little secret insights to Lucy's work, both past, present and future. This is bonus content and our objects of influence segment where we ask a writer to provide us with an object that has been with them during the writing of the book. It's also a little Easter Egg from the Rippling Pages too. You're going to hear a snippet of the Patreon close-reads podcast for subscribers. If you like the sound of it, you can sign up for exclusive member benefits, including the full close read podcast exclusive to subscribers. Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages. https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi    Other useful links to heighten your Rippling Pages experience: Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages  Chapters - Close Read Patreon Preview 1.45 - Objects of Influence - 3.55 Reference Points Anton Chekhov Hamlet Taylor Swift

    10 min

  3. 19 MAR

    Lucy Caldwell on writing transcendent psychic moments and finding meaning in life

    Oh wow! It was my pleasure to have a coffee with and speak to the writer Lucy Caldwell about her new short story collection, DEVOTIONS (published by Faber and Faber). That's right, we were live and in person having a coffee talking about Lucy's new collection I revelled in a theatre troupe performing a choose your own version of Hamlet; I had a wry smile watching Christopher Plummer ponder on whether he really did love Julie Andrews, and among the many other stories, continued to marvel at Lucy's capacity to meditate on death, existence, light and love. Lucy is from Belfast. She lives in Kent, but we had our conversation in London.  Other useful links to heighten your Rippling Pages experience Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages  Chapters 2.00 - is 'master' the right word? 7.15 - Devotions forming a single whole 9.15 Lucy's relationship with her editor 12.50 - writing in real-time  16.50 - Choose your own adventure stories. 18.10 - Hamlet. 21.10 - Writing about love 26.05 - Devotions easter egg! 28.35 finding meaning in the here and the now.  32.20 - Patreon shoutouts! 33.50 - inspired by James Joyce 37.26 - writing great psychic movements. 42.00 - Special writing from Lucy.  46.45 - Finding meaning in the darkness 51.25 - Suffering as a portal.  Reference Points Sebastian Barry Elizabeth Bowen Willa Cather Anton Chekhov Dante Ram Dass John Donne T.S. Eliot Anne Enright Wendy Erskine bell hooks Kazuo Ishiguro James Joyce Claire Kilroy Rosamond Lehman Louis MacNeice Alice Munro Cardinal Newman Edna O’Brien Frank O’Hara Rumi Helen Simpson John Updike Sylvia Townsend Warner Virginia Woolf W.B. Yeats Lucy’s Work Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (edited by Lucy, Faber, 2021) Multitudes (Faber, 2016) Intimacies (Faber, 2021) Leaves (Faber: 2007) Where They Were Missed (Faber: 2005) Plays Hamlet Music Ludwig van Beethoven Van Morrison Taylor Swift Films The Sound of Music (1965: Robert Wise)

    55 min

  4. 5 MAR

    Bonus! Why a letter knife told Leon Craig everything she needed to know about her characters’ desires

    Welcome to this bonus content with Leon Craig. We’re talking about how Leon found an old letter knife in a shop which helped her understand her characters desires. PLUS! You’ll hear Leon talking about plagues, the pandemic, and why she left the UK to write her novel about the UK.   Leon was here to discuss THE DECADENCE (Sceptre), a novel about a group of friends who find shelter in an old abandoned home, but encounter more than they bargained for. Leon Craig, whose previous collection of short stories, PARALLEL HELLS, was also published by Sceptre, is a graduate of the Birkbeck MFA Creative Writing course. Her work has been published by Hazlitt, the Sunday Times, the London Magazine and others and is forthcoming in Nulla magazine and Berlin Babel anthology.   Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages

    13 min

  5. 19 FEB

    Leon Craig on misunderstanding ghosts and getting what we want

    I’m looking forward to diving into the crumbling and the haunted this week with Leon Craig.  We’re discussing Leon Craig’s THE DECADENCE. And you the listener picked Leon as one of the rising stars of literature that you wanted me to interview. Have you ever walked past an old abandoned house and wondered what kinds of lives were lived there? Have you ever dared to explore one? Perhaps you wanted to escape and hide in the house. Or perhaps you wanted to use it for something a little more nefarious. Leon Craig, whose previous collection of short stories, PARALLEL HELLS, was also published by Sceptre, is a graduate of the Birkbeck MFA Creative Writing course. Her work has been published by Hazlitt, the Sunday Times, the London Magazine and others and is forthcoming in Nulla magazine and Berlin Babel anthology.   Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages  Episode Chapters 1.30 - rising literary stars poll 3.30 - The crumbling haunted house 6.30 - the ensemble cast  7.25 - early hauntings.  10.10 - misunderstandings and humour  11.50 -embracing imperfect characters. 14.25 - secret passageways  16.05 - sexual elements to hauntings.  19.10 - colonial legacies and trespassing 22.55 - Rippling Pages Patreon 24.20 - on beauty   27.00 - getting what we want.  29.50 - desire and disgust  32.00 - The country housegenre 37.15 - Leon’s next novel   Reference Points House of Leaves (2000, Mark Z. Danielewski). Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell) Beowulf The Great Gatsby (1925, F.Scott Fitzgerald) White is for Witching(2009, Helen Oyeyemi) Brideshead Revisited (1945, Evelyn Waugh)

    39 min

  6. 5 FEB

    Ana Schnabl on using childhood locations and memories in stories about unpleasant people

    We’re going to the Slovenian coast this week during the final years Yugoslavia with Ana Schnabl.  Dunja has finally launched her literary career, but the shadow and spectre of her brother’s death haunts both her and her family. What happens when she returns to investigate her brother’s death? And what happens when the truth becomes stranger than the fiction she writes? Ana Schnabl’s novel is published by Divided Publishing. Ana is a Slovenian writer, and this is her second novel to be translated into English, by Rawley Grau. Her first novel to be translated into English was The Masterpiece, that time by David Limon. In Slovenia, she is a winner of Slovenia’s prestigious literary prize, the Kresnik award. She’s also a regular contributor to the journal The Guardian, writing on Balkan politics and culture. Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages  Episode Chapters 1.30 - Ana's based in Slovenia 2.35 - Fake crime novels 3.50 - Djuna's relationship with her dead brother. 5.30 - Why has Djuna returned? 7.30 - Family dynamics.  9.00 - Rockstars and the Slovene transition 10.35 - Michael Jackson 13.30 - a fake crime novel 15.00 - Rippling Pages Bookshop 16.00 - Not liking modernist novels 19.45 - Writing cerebral characters 21.00 - Sentimental feelings about home 24.15 - Ice cream and the Adriatic coast 27.30 - Not believing in legacies. 30.30 sitting with unpleasant people. 31.50 - who helps Djuna. 33.45 - Smoking   Reference Points Agatha Christie  Marcel Proust Virginia Woolf

    38 min

  7. 22 JAN

    Eva Meijer live in Leeds and panoramic crisis fiction based on personal experience

    What a lovely time I had speaking and sitting with Eva Meijer, the Dutch Author, in Leeds to discuss their novel SEA NOW.  A government who seems slow to respond to a rapidly encroaching crisis. Marketing executives exploiting ways to make quick cash. A missing Prime Minister. Leavers and remainers conflicted about the right course of action. It all sounds like a playbook for our recent political crises. But when the dams start bursting in the Netherlands and the country rapidly begins to flood and be subsumed, what happens when people are faced with the unthinkable in this new waterworld.  These are the questions at the heart of Eva Meijer’s, SEA NOW, translated by Anne Thompson Melo, and published by Peirene Press. Other useful links to heighten your Rippling Pages experience: Get exclusive subscriber benefits from the Rippling Pages.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Check out the Rippling Pages Bookshop and buy all the books featured on the Rippling Pages: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/ripplingpagespod Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages    Chapters 2.25 - what is the novel about 4.25 - a human and animal story 7:45 - how people respond to the crisis in the book 11.15 - is the novel represent human experience 13.45 - widescreen viewpoints 17.45 - why is the sea so powerful 21.20 - the Rippling Pages Bookshop 23.10 - why do characters stay? 25.40 - is there hope in the novel 27.15 - endings and new beginnings and grief  30.30 - objects of influence  36.40 - Patreon subscriber shoutout! Reference Points Don DeLillo

    38 min

  8. 8 JAN

    Bonus - Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali on their favourite books and writing beyond the surface

    Happy New Year! I’m delighted to bring you some more unedited and bonus content from my Christmas and New Year special with Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali. There was just so much good stuff in our craft and curation special, that I wanted to bring you a little more to start the year.  These books are going to be spoken about in literary circles in January.  In Pakistan, a young woman grapples with a strange, indefinable illness against a backdrop of political upheaval. In England, a teenager tries to make sense of his intense emotions during one hot summer at boarding school. Farah Ali’s TELEGRAPHY, published by CB Editions, is her second novel. Originally from Pakistan, Farah has been anthologised for the Pushcart Prize and is the reviews editor at Wasafiri. JEAN is the debut novel by London-based writer Madeleine Dunnigan, published by Daunt Books. She was a Jill Davis Fellow on the MFA programme at New York University. Support the Rippling Pages on a new Patreon with exclusive crafted subscriber benefits.  https://patreon.com/RipplingPagesPod?utm_medi Interested in hosting your own podcast? Follow this link and find out how: https://www.podbean.com/ripplingpages  Reference Points Tom McCarthy  John McGahern Gerald Murnane

    13 min
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