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.

  1. Little Atoms 999 - Daniel Lavelle's Chasing Aliens

    18시간 전

    Little Atoms 999 - Daniel Lavelle's Chasing Aliens

    Daniel Lavelle is an Orwell Prize-winning freelance feature writer from Manchester. His first book, Down and Out, was published in 2022 and won a Royal Society of Literature award for non-fiction writing. He has covered topics such as mental health, homelessness, and culture for the Guardian (for whom he co-authored the series ‘The Empty Doorway’), New Statesman and the Independent. He received the Guardian’s Hugo Young award for an opinion piece on his experience of homelessness. ‘The Empty Doorway’ won Feature of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2019 and was nominated for the same award at the National Press Awards 2020. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book Chasing Aliens: Faith and Conspiracy in the UFO Heartlands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28분
  2. Little Atoms 998 - Daniel Trilling's If We Tolerate This

    5월 14일

    Little Atoms 998 - Daniel Trilling's If We Tolerate This

    Daniel Trilling writes about nationalism, migration and human rights for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and the New York Times. His work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Political Book Awards and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book, If We Tolerate This: How the British establishment made the far right respectable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    41분
  3. Little Atoms 997 - Claire Fuller's Hunger and Thirst

    5월 7일

    Little Atoms 997 - Claire Fuller's Hunger and Thirst

    Claire Fuller gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written five previous novels including: Unsettled Ground, which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons, which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Hunger and Thirst. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    34분
  4. Little Atoms 996 - Richard Byrne's Beauty Doesn't Reach Me

    4월 30일

    Little Atoms 996 - Richard Byrne's Beauty Doesn't Reach Me

    Richard Byrne is a dramatist and journalist. He was the editor of The Wilson Quarterly from 2019 to 2021. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, Time, BookForum and Zona Motel. His music criticism includes liner notes for releases by R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo. His work as a dramatist includes two musicals: Nero/Pseudo (written with Jon Langford and Jim Elkington) and Congressman Davy (with Dean Schlabowske). His play, Hotel Mayflower, was published in a bilingual edition (English/German) by Moloko Print. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2024 Pandora Machine film, The Drowned Girl. Byrne gained notoriety recently with author Jarett Kobek for his role in recovering the plaintext for the long-unsolved K4 strand of the celebrated Kryptos cipher. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me. Content note: Discussion of suicide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28분
  5. Little Atoms 995 - Angela Tomaski's The Infamous Gilberts

    4월 23일

    Little Atoms 995 - Angela Tomaski's The Infamous Gilberts

    Angela Tomaski was born in Oxford and raised in Somerset with her four brothers and sisters. She has had a variety of different jobs, including as a waitress, cleaner, English teacher and activity coordinator in a care home. She has a daughter and two grandsons, and now lives in rural Dorset. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Infamous Gilberts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26분
  6. Little Atoms 994 - Sian Hughes' No Such Thing As Monday

    4월 17일

    Little Atoms 994 - Sian Hughes' No Such Thing As Monday

    Sian Hughes is a writer who grew up in a small village in Cheshire. Her first collection of poetry The Missing was a Poetry Society Recommendation, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis and the Aldeburgh prizes, and won the Seamus Heaney Award. Sian's first novel Pearl was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 and shortlisted for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2024. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel No Such Thing As Monday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27분
  7. Little Atoms 993 - Elizabeth Arnott's The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives

    4월 9일

    Little Atoms 993 - Elizabeth Arnott's The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives

    Elizabeth Arnott is an award-winning writer and journalist and has written critically acclaimed historical fiction as Lizzie Pook. Her work has featured in publications including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and Stylist. On today’s episode of Little Atoms, she talks to Neil Denny about her new novel The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    30분
  8. Little Atoms 992 - Sophie Mackintosh's Permanence

    4월 2일

    Little Atoms 992 - Sophie Mackintosh's Permanence

    Sophie Mackintosh is the author of four novels, including The Water Cure and Cursed Bread. She has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize, has won a Betty Trask Award, and has been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel, Permanence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31분
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