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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...
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Guadalupe Nettel, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Guadalupe Nettel, author of four novels and three collections of short stories, including the most r...
Diane Williams, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Diane Williams, author of eleven books of fiction, including the short story collection I Hear You’r...
Tao Lin, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Tao Lin, the author of ten books, including Leave Society and Taipei.
We discuss two of Tao Li...
Susie Boyt, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Susie Boyt, the author of seven novels, most recently Loved and Missed, and the memoir My Judy Garla...
Nico Walker, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Nico Walker, author of the novel Cherry.
We discuss Nico Walker’s essay ‘Mucker Play’, publi...
Declan Ryan, The Granta Podcast
Granta 170: Winners is out this week. In this episode, we speak to Declan Ryan about his essay on the British heavyweight boxing today, ‘The Hurt Busi...
Wang Xiaoshuai, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the film director Wang Xiaoshuai, known for the films Beijing Bicycle (2001) and So Long, My Son (2...
Allen Bratton, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Allen Bratton, whose short stories Barbarism and Honeymoon have been published online at granta.com...
Alan Hollinghurst, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Alan Hollinghurst, author of seven novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, the Booker Prize-win...
Rachel Kushner, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and essayist Rachel Kushner, author of the books The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Tel...
Benjamin Kunkel, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta podcast we speak to the novelist and journalist Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision (2005) and co-founder of the journ...
Sheila Heti, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Sheila Heti, author of the books How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood and Pure Colour....
Andrew O’Hagan, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and journalist Andrew O’Hagan, author of seven novels and several books of non-fiction...
Lauren Oyler, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist and critic Lauren Oyler, author of No Judgement (2024) and Fake Accounts (2024), about...
Brandon Taylor, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (2020) and The Late Americans (2023), about natura...
Jamaica Kincaid, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 111
In 2022 Jamaica Kincaid spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about childhood, the concept of memory and her early love of Paradise Lost.
Jamaic...
Claire-Louise Bennett, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 110
Last year Claire-Louise Bennett and editor Josie Mitchell talked about rereading, resisting homogenisation and committing to the process of unravellin...
Lynne Tillman, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 109
In 2022 Lynne Tillman and editor Josie Mitchell discussed the afterlife of novels, haunted houses and the sexual revolution.
Lynne Tillman is t...
Vanessa Onwuemezi, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 108
In 2022 Vanessa Onwuemezi spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, sitting with strangeness and the joy of trying out ne...
Anthony Anaxagorou, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 107
In 2022 Anthony Anaxagorou and editor Josie Mitchell talked about heritage, national identity and poetry that cannot keep still.
Anthony...
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 106
In 2022 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about a fear of forgetting, Lapeyrouse Cemetery and our cultural traditions around death.
Mary Gaitskill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 105
In 2022 Mary Gaitskill talked to editor Josie Mitchell about her fascination with the idea of hell, returning to past creative work and writing charac...
Eula Biss, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 104
In 2021 Eula Biss talked to editor Josie Mitchell on the distortions of capital, bartering with Pokémon cards and the conditions necessary for creativ...
Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 103
Last year Stephanie Sy-Quia spoke to online editor Josie Mitchell about modern cathedrals, telling her grandmothers’ stories and the impulse to catego...
Tice Cin, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 102
Last year Tice Cin spoke to Josie Mitchell about poetry, brutalist architecture and returning home.
Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary art...
Anuk Arudpragasam, The Granta Podcast Ep. 101
In 2021 Anuk Arudpragasam spoke to Josie Mitchell about the influence of Thomas Bernhard, writing in the wake of war and his relationship to the Engli...
Kathryn Scanlan, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 100
Back in the early summer of 2020, the writer Kathryn Scanlan joined Josie Mitchell to talk about her story collection, The Dominant Animal. They discu...
Joanna Kavenna, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 99
Joanna Kavenna joins Josie Mitchell to discuss Zed – a sci-fi dystopia exploring our fears about the psychological cost of surveillance capitalism.
Caleb Klaces, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 98
Caleb Klaces joins Josie Mitchell to talk about about his debut novel, Fatherhood – his poet’s account of becoming a father.
Back at the beginni...
Sophie Mackintosh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 97
Sophie Mackintosh speaks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Blue Ticket. They talk about what it means to be pregnancy-adjacent, the bloodt...
Ottessa Moshfegh, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 96
Ottessa Moshfegh joined Josie Mitchell to talk about about her novel, Death in Her Name.
They discuss the ‘perfect storm’ trapping us inside wit...
Carmen Maria Machado, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 95
Carmen Maria Machado discusses her new memoir, In the Dream House, with Josie Mitchell. They discuss memory as architecture, formal experimentation, a...
Momtaza Mehri, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 94
Josie Mitchell talks to Momtaza Mehri about her pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, out with Goldsmiths Shorts. They discuss the value of self-in...
Jenny Offill, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 93
Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, talks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Weather. They discuss pre-apocalypse warnings, the d...
Sandra Newman: The Granta Podcast Ep. 92
Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, Cake, The Country of Ice Cream Star and four non-fiction books inc...
Maureen N. McLane: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 91
Maureen N. McLane reads from her book My Poets. My Poets begins its first chapter ‘proem, in the form of a Q&A’, which is what you hear at the beginni...
Kamila Shamsie: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 90
Kamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels and one book of non-fiction. Among many other accolades, Kamila is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Liter...
Max Porter reads Will Self: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 89
In this episode of the Granta podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self. Diagnosed with a rare...
Margo Jefferson reads Kathleen Collins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 88
In this episode of the Granta podcast, Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, reads Kathleen Collins’s short story, ‘The Uncle’, taken from the collect...
Andrea Stuart: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 87
In this episode of the Granta podcast, Josie Mitchell speaks with Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They discuss the value of femin...