Little Atoms
612 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 44 ratingsLittle Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny.
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Little Atoms 892 - Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone
April 15, 2024 23:01 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBSinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. In today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Hagstone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 891 - Peter Pomerantsev's How To Win An Information War
April 08, 2024 23:01 - 28 minutes - 39 MBPeter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second, This is Not Propaganda, won the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize. His essay on authoritarian propaganda, 'Memory in the Age of Impunity', won the 2022 European P...
Little Atoms 890 - Stuart Turton's The Last Murder At The End Of The World
April 01, 2024 23:01 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBStuart Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in the UK and US combined. The Devil and the Dark Water, his follow up, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Ficti...
Little Atoms 889 - Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall
March 26, 2024 00:01 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBMichael Donkor was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. His first novel, Hold, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prizes. He is a frequent contributor to outlets including the Guardian, the TLS and the Independent. Michael talks to Neil Denny his latest novel Grow Where They Fall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 888 - Lauren Oyler's No Judgement
March 19, 2024 00:01 - 29 minutes - 39.8 MBLauren Oyler is the author of the novel Fake Accounts. Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's, the Guardian and other publications. She lives in Berlin. on today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of essays No Judgement: On Being Critical. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 887 - Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against The Axe
March 15, 2024 00:01 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBHelen Oyeyemi talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Parasol Against The Axe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 886 - Tracy King's Learning To Think.
March 12, 2024 00:01 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBTracy King talks to Neil Denny about her memoir Learning To Think. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 885 - Rachel Cockerell's Melting Point
March 05, 2024 00:01 - 28 minutes - 39 MBRachel Cockerell talks to Neil Denny about her first work of non-fiction Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 884 - Hannah Durkin's Survivors
February 27, 2024 00:11 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBDr. Hannah Durkin talks to Neil Denny about her new book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 883 - Leo Vardiashvili's Hard By A Great Forest
February 20, 2024 12:21 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBLeo Vardiashvili joins Neil Denny to talk about his debut novel Hard By A Great Forest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 882 - Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
February 13, 2024 05:01 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBMolly McGhee talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 881 - Aniefiok Ekpoudom's Where We Come From
February 06, 2024 00:01 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBAniefiok Ekpoudom talks to Neil Denny about his debut book Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 880 - Kiley Reid's Come And Get It
January 30, 2024 00:01 - 31 minutes - 43 MBKiley Reid talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Come And Get It. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 879 - Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables
January 23, 2024 00:01 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBSigrid Nunez talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Vulnerables. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 878 - Kate Brody's Rabbit Hole
January 16, 2024 00:01 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MBKate Brody talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Rabbit Hole. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 877 - Ron Rash's The Caretaker
January 09, 2024 00:01 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBRon Rash talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Caretaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 876 - Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel
January 02, 2024 00:01 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBin the first show of 2024, Jonathan Lethem joins Neil Denny to talk about his new book Brooklyn Crime Novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 875 - Dann McDorman's West Heart Kill
December 19, 2023 00:01 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBDann McDorman talks to Nei Denny abouty his debut novel West Heart Kill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 874 - Julianne Pachico's Jungle House
December 12, 2023 00:01 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBJulianne Pachico returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Jungle House. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 873 - Rob Drummond's You're All Talk
December 08, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBLinguist Rob Drummond talks to Neil Denny about his new book You're All Talk: why we are what we speak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 872 - Anne Michaels' Held
December 05, 2023 00:01 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBAnne Michaels talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Held. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 871 - Jean Kwok's The Leftover Woman
December 01, 2023 00:01 - 26 minutes - 36 MBJean Kwok joins Neil Denny to talk about her latest novel The Leftover Woman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 870 - Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls
November 28, 2023 00:01 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBMike McCormack talks to Neil Denny about his "metaphysical noir" novel This Plague of Souls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 869 - Beto O'Rourke's We've Got To Try
November 24, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutes - 40 MBFormer US Congressman and Democratic presidential nomination candidate Beto O'Rourke talks to Neil Denny about his book We've Got To Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 868 - Ed Gillett's Party Lines
November 21, 2023 00:01 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBEd Gillett talks to Neil Denny about his new book Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 867 - A.K. Blakemore's The Glutton
November 14, 2023 00:01 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBA.K. Blakemore talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Glutton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 866 - Adam Biles' Beasts of England
November 10, 2023 00:01 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBAdam Biles talks to Neil Denny about his Animal Farm sequel Beasts of England. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 865 - Sandra Newman's Julia
November 07, 2023 00:01 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBSandra Newman talks to Neil Denny about her new novel Julia, which retells 1984 from Julia's perspective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 864 - Cat Jarman's The Bone Chests
October 31, 2023 10:05 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBCat Jarman retrurns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her new book The Bone Chests: Unlocking The Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 863 - Michael J. Benton's Extinction
October 26, 2023 23:01 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBPaleontologist Michael J. Benton talks to Neil about his latest book Extinction: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 862 - Robert Peckham's Fear
October 23, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBNeil is joined by Robert Peckham to talk about his book Fear: An Alternative History of the World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From the Archive - Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost
October 19, 2023 22:31 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBNeil is on holiday so here's a repeat of our interview from earlier this year with Isabella Hammad talking about her novel Enter Ghost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 861 - Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore
October 16, 2023 23:01 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBElizabeth Acevedo talks to Neil Denny about her first novel for adults, Family Lore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 860 - Caspar Henderson's A Book of Noises
October 09, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBCaspar Henderson talks to Neil Denny about his new book, A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 859 - Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz
October 05, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBFrancis Spufford returns to Little Atoms and talks to neil Denny about his latest novel, the alternative history Cahokia Jazz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 858 - Gina Chung's Sea Change
October 02, 2023 23:01 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBGina Chung talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Sea Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 857 - Natalie Haynes' Divine Might
September 29, 2023 08:01 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBNatalie Haynes returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her latest non-fiction book Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 856 - Jamel Brinkley's Witness
September 25, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBJamel Brinkley talks to Neil Denny about his latest short story collection Witness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 855 - Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds
September 22, 2023 09:56 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBNeil welcome's back Lauren Groff to Little Atoms to talk about her latest novel The Vaster Wilds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 854 - David Stubbs' Different Times
September 18, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBDavid Stubbs returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Different Times: A History of British Comedy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 853 - Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child
September 14, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBYiyun Li returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of stories Wednesday's Child. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 852 - Nick Hunt's Red Smoking Mirror
September 11, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutes - 42 MBTravel writer Nick Hunt talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel Red Smoking Mirror. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 851 - Khashayar Khabushani's I Will Greet The Sun Again
September 07, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBKhashayar J. Khabushani talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel I Will Greet The Sun Again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 850 - Simon Winder & Penguin Crime & Espionage
September 04, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 40 MBPenguin Press publishing director Simon Winder talks to Neil Denny about the recent revival of Penguin Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 849 - Rachel Connolly's Lazy City
August 28, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBRachel Connolly talks to Neil Denny about her Belfast set debut novel Lazy City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 848 - Thomas Morris' Open Up
August 24, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 39.8 MBThomas Morris talks to Neil Denny about his new "suite of stories" Open Up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 847 - Anna Funder's Wifedom
August 21, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBAnna Funder talks to Neil about the life of George Orwell's wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy in her new book Wifedom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 846 - V. V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night
August 17, 2023 23:01 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBV. V. Ganeshananthan in conversation with Neil Denny about her latest novel Brotherless Night. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 845 - Laura Lippman's Prom Mom
August 14, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBLaura Lippman returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest novel Prom Mom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Little Atoms 844 - Kate Mosse's The Ghost Ship
August 10, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBKate Mosse talks to Neil about her latest novel, the third book in her Joubert Family Chronicles quartet, the Ghost Ship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.