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Little AtomsLittle Atoms 932 - Ken Hollings' The Trash ProjectKen Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. He is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome To Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor, Frieze, Noon and Satori, and in numerous anthologies and collections, as well as in features and series for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4FM. He teaches at The Royal College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art and Design. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms, the first of...
2025-01-0341 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 931- Lola Young's Eight Weeks Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey became one of the first Black Women members of the House of Lords in 2004. Raised in foster care in North London, she studied at the New College of Speech and Drama, then worked as an actress, before becoming Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University. Later, she worked in arts administration before receiving an OBE in 2001 and becoming an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is active in campaigns on modern slavery and ethical fashion. In 2017 she was on the Man Booker Prize judging panel, and she is also Chancellor of...
2024-12-2031 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 930 - Miranda Sawyer's Uncommon PeopleMiranda Sawyer has written about pop music since 1988, beginning on Smash Hits before moving to Select, The Face and the Observer. Her first book Park and Ride explored the British suburbs, her second Out of Time exploded the midlife crisis. On. This week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-12-1339 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 929 - Niall Williams' Time Of The ChildNiall Williams was born in Dublin. He is the author of nine novels, including History of the Rain, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and Four Letters of Love, which will soon be a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. His most recent novel, This Is Happiness was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Book of the Year and longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Time Of The Child. Hosted on Acas...
2024-12-0628 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 928 - Simon Critchley's On MysticismSimon Critchley has published books on a wide expanse of ethical and philosophical subjects, including the bestselling The Book of Dead Philosophers, his cult novel Memory Theatre and his memoir-analysis of David Bowie - On Bowie. He is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. On this week's episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-11-2930 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 927 - Jeff Young's Wild TwinJeff Young is a writer for stage, screen and radio. Until recently a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, he is the author of the acclaimed memoir Ghost Town. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new memoir Wild Twin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-11-2232 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 926 - Jean Hanff Korelitz's The SequelJean Hanff Korelitz is the author of seven novels, including The Devil and Webster, You Should Have Known (adapted as the 2020 HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as the 2013 film of the same name, starring Tina Fey, Lily Tomlin and Paul Rudd), The White Rose, The Sabbathday River, A Jury of Her Peers, The Latecomer and The Plot. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Sequel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
2024-11-1530 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 925 - Jonathan Coe's The Proof Of My InnocenceJonathan Coe was born a few miles from Bournville in 1961. The author of political satires such as Bournville, What a Carve Up! and Number 11, and family sagas such as The Rotters' Club and The Rain Before It Falls, his novels have won prizes at home and abroad, including Costa Novel of the Year and the Prix du Livre Européen. On this episode of little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Proof Of My Innocence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-11-0828 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 924 - Francesca Segal's Welcome To Glorious TugaFrancesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents (2012) and The Awkward Age (2017), and a memoir of NICU motherhood, Mother Ship (2019). Her writing has won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award, and been longlisted for the Women's Prize. On today’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Welcome To Glorious Tuga. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-11-0127 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 923 - Dava Sobel's The Elements of Marie CurieDava Sobel is the internationally renowned author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter. She was an award-winning former science reporter for the ‘New York Times’ and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including the ‘New Yorker’, ‘Audubon’, ‘Discover’, ‘Life’ and ‘Omni’. On today’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-10-2528 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 922 - Xan Brooks' The CatchersXan Brooks is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He was one of the founding editorial team at the Big Issue magazine in London and spent 15-years as a writer and associate editor at the Guardian newspaper. His debut novel, The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times, was listed for the Costa First Novel Award, the Author's Club Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. On this episode of Little Atoms, he tells Neil Denny about his latest novel The Catchers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
2024-10-1832 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 921 - Lynne Peeples' The Inner ClockLynne Peeples is a freelance science journalist, specialising in the environment, public health and medicine. She holds a M.S. in Biostatistics from Harvard and an M.A. in Science Journalism from New York University. Her writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Nature, Scientific American and The Atlantic, amongst others. A 2020-2021 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow and a finalist for the 2018 National Association of Science Writers long-form reporting award, on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her new book The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms.
2024-10-1129 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 920 - Kate Summerscale's The PeepshowKate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Peepshow: The Mu...
2024-10-0431 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 919 - Ekow Eshun's The StrangersEkow Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, editor, curator, broadcaster, and author of the memoir Black Gold of the Sun, which was nominated for the Orwell Prize for its exploration of race and identity. He writes for publications including the New York Times, Financial Times and Guardian, and has created documentaries for BBC4 and BBC Radio 4. Eshun was the first Black editor of a major magazine in the UK and the first Black director of a major arts organisation. In this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book The Strangers. Hosted on Acast. See acast...
2024-09-2733 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 918 - Garth Greenwell's Small RainGarth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness. His novel What Belongs to You won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmu...
2024-09-2028 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 917 - Rumaan Alam's EntitlementRumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and adapted into a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker and elsewhere. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Entitlement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-09-1329 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 916 - Donal Ryan's Heart Be At PeaceDonal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and w...
2024-09-0628 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 915 - Irenosen Okojie's CuranderaIrenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For S...
2024-08-3029 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 912 - James Shapiro's The PlaybookJames Shapiro, who teaches English at Columbia University in New York, is author of several books, including 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (winner of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006 and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' in 2023), as well as Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-08-0928 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 911 - Clare Beams' The GardenClare Beams is the author of the novel The Illness Lesson, which was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,and the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016. She was a finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Garden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-08-0232 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 910 - Ralf Webb's Strange RelationsRalf Webb is the author of Rotten Days in Late Summer, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. His poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in Fantastic Man, Granta, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He tutors in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny abouth his first nonfiction book Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-2642 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 909 - Hanna Pylväinen's The End Of Drum-TimeHanna Pylväinen is the author of the novel We Sinners, which received a Whiting Award and a Balcones Fiction Prize. To research The End of Drum-Time, her second novel, which she talks to Neil Denny about on this episode of Little Atoms, she spent six months with Sámi reindeer herders in Finland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-1929 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 908 - Adam Higginbotham's ChallengerAdam Higginbotham is a British writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of Midnight In Chernobyl, and in today's episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-1633 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 907 - Rebecca Watson's I Will CrashRebecca Watson is an Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer's ten best debut novelists of 2021. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is the author of the novel Little Scratch, and on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel I Will Crash. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-1228 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 906 - Alan Murrin's The Coast RoadAlan Murrin is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story, "The Wake," won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. His debut novel The Coast Road which he discussed with Neil Denny in this episode of Little Atoms was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction prize. Murrin is also the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia, and writes for the Irish Times and the Times...
2024-07-0528 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 905 - Yael Van Der Wouden's The SafekeepYael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, "On (Not) Reading Anne Frank", has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Safekeep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-06-2835 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 904 - Jon Savage's The Secret PublicJon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-06-2533 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 903 - Julia Armfield's Private RitesJulia Armfield's work has been published in Granta, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Polari Prize 2023. On today's...
2024-06-2128 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 902 - Noreen Masud's A Flat PlaceNoreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her memoir A Flat Place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-06-1830 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 901 - Clare Pollard's The Modern FairiesClare Pollard is an award-winning poet and playwright based in London. She is the author of five poetry collections and the former Editor of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine. Her first novel, Delphi , was published by Fig Tree in 2022. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her second novel,The Modern Fairies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-06-1430 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 900 - Kevin Barry's The Heart In WinterKevin Barry is the author of four novels and three story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. His novel, Night Boat to Tangier,was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter. On today's show, the 900th episode of Little Atoms, Kevin ta...
2024-06-0732 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 899 - Rachel Khong's Real AmericansRachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Cut, The Guardian, The Paris Review, andTin House. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and non-binary writers and artists in San Francisco's Mission District. On today’s show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Real Americans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
2024-05-3127 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 898 - Ayana Mathis's The UnsettledAyana Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times best seller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica, and Rolling Stone. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her long-awaited new novel The Unsettled. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-2438 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 897 - Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of TimeKaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review,among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. in this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Ministry of Time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-1728 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 896 - Orlando Whitfield's All That GlittersOrlando Whitfield graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2009. He started dealing art while still a student, and worked in and around the art market for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review and the White Review. On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his first book All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-1027 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 895 - Sarah Perry's EnlightenmentSarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Enlightenment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-0329 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 894 - Francesca De Tores' SaltbloodFrancesca De Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels, published in more than 20 languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. On this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about Saltblood, an epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of the infamous female pirate Mary Read. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-04-3028 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 893 - Niamh Mulvey's The AmendmentsNiamh Mulvey's first book, the short story collection Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador in June 2022. Her short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee and Southword and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. In this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Amendments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-04-2331 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 892 - Sinéad Gleeson’s HagstoneSinéad 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.
2024-04-1625 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 891 - Peter Pomerantsev's How To Win An Information WarPeter 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 Press Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his latest...
2024-04-0928 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 890 - Stuart Turton's The Last Murder At The End Of The WorldStuart 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 Fiction and was selected for the BBC Two Book Club, Between the Cove...
2024-04-0231 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 889 - Michael Donkor's Grow Where They FallMichael 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.
2024-03-2629 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 888 - Lauren Oyler's No JudgementLauren 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.
2024-03-1929 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 887 - Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against The AxeHelen Oyeyemi talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Parasol Against The Axe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-1521 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 886 - Tracy King's Learning To Think.Tracy King talks to Neil Denny about her memoir Learning To Think. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-1228 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 885 - Rachel Cockerell's Melting PointRachel 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.
2024-03-0528 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 884 - Hannah Durkin's SurvivorsDr. 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.
2024-02-2726 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 883 - Leo Vardiashvili's Hard By A Great ForestLeo 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.
2024-02-2021 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 882 - Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are KindMolly McGhee talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-02-1329 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 881 - Aniefiok Ekpoudom's Where We Come FromAniefiok 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.
2024-02-0630 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 880 - Kiley Reid's Come And Get ItKiley Reid talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Come And Get It. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-3031 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 879 - Sigrid Nunez's The VulnerablesSigrid Nunez talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Vulnerables. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-2328 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 878 - Kate Brody's Rabbit HoleKate Brody talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Rabbit Hole. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-1630 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 877 - Ron Rash's The CaretakerRon Rash talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Caretaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-0924 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 876 - Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novelin 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.
2024-01-0225 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 874 - Julianne Pachico's Jungle HouseJulianne 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.
2023-12-1227 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 873 - Rob Drummond's You're All TalkLinguist 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.
2023-12-0829 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 872 - Anne Michaels' HeldAnne Michaels talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Held. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-12-0526 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 871 - Jean Kwok's The Leftover WomanJean Kwok joins Neil Denny to talk about her latest novel The Leftover Woman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-12-0126 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 870 - Mike McCormack's This Plague of SoulsMike McCormack talks to Neil Denny about his "metaphysical noir" novel This Plague of Souls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-11-2828 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 869 - Beto O'Rourke's We've Got To TryFormer 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.
2023-11-2429 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 868 - Ed Gillett's Party LinesEd 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.
2023-11-2144 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 867 - A.K. Blakemore's The GluttonA.K. Blakemore talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Glutton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-11-1428 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 866 - Adam Biles' Beasts of EnglandAdam Biles talks to Neil Denny about his Animal Farm sequel Beasts of England. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-11-1033 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 865 - Sandra Newman's JuliaSandra 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.
2023-11-0730 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 861 - Elizabeth Acevedo's Family LoreElizabeth Acevedo talks to Neil Denny about her first novel for adults, Family Lore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-10-1728 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 860 - Caspar Henderson's A Book of NoisesCaspar 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.
2023-10-1026 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 859 - Francis Spufford's Cahokia JazzFrancis 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.
2023-10-0629 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 858 - Gina Chung's Sea ChangeGina Chung talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Sea Change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-10-0331 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 857 - Natalie Haynes' Divine MightNatalie 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.
2023-09-2932 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 856 - Jamel Brinkley's WitnessJamel Brinkley talks to Neil Denny about his latest short story collection Witness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-09-2630 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 854 - David Stubbs' Different TimesDavid 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.
2023-09-1929 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 853 - Yiyun Li's Wednesday's ChildYiyun 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.
2023-09-1525 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 852 - Nick Hunt's Red Smoking MirrorTravel writer Nick Hunt talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel Red Smoking Mirror. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-09-1230 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 851 - Khashayar Khabushani's I Will Greet The Sun AgainKhashayar 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.
2023-09-0826 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 850 - Simon Winder & Penguin Crime & EspionagePenguin 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.
2023-09-0529 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 849 - Rachel Connolly's Lazy CityRachel Connolly talks to Neil Denny about her Belfast set debut novel Lazy City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-08-2930 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 848 - Thomas Morris' Open UpThomas Morris talks to Neil Denny about his new "suite of stories" Open Up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-08-2529 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 846 - V. V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless NightV. V. Ganeshananthan in conversation with Neil Denny about her latest novel Brotherless Night. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-08-1833 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 828 - Blessin Adams' Great And Horrible NewsBlessin Adams talks to Neil Denny about her book Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-05-1631 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 647 - Maria Konnikova's The Biggest BluffMaria Konnikova talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Biggest Bluff, in which she sets out to study luck and instead becomes a professional poker player. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-08-2540 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms presents...Electric EnlightenmentEpisode 1 of Little Atoms' documentary series "Converging Cultures" explores the influence of science on the Romantic and Gothic imagination. Electricity captivated the greatest minds of the “age of wonder”. Gentlemen amateurs amazed audiences with their experiments, and some even believed electricity could conquer death itself. The young Mary Shelley was as enthralled as anyone - leading to the greatest horror creation of all time: Frankenstein.Presented by Neil DennyProduced by Thomas GlasserLittle Atoms' series Converging Cultures was created with the support of the Wellcome Trust Hosted on Acast. See...
2017-11-1124 min
Little AtomsFrom the archive: Jon Ronson, October 2005Writer Jon Ronson has been one of Little Atoms most regular guests. In his very first appearance on the show in 2005, he talked to Neil Denny and Richard Sanderson about the odd and unusual characters he met in his work, including Omar Bakri Muhammad, Jonathan King and the eponymous Men Who Stare At Goats. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-08-2250 min
Little Atoms461: Neil Wood's Good Cop Bad WarNeil Woods was an undercover cop whose brief was to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs. Starting out in the early 90s and making the rules up as he went, Neil was at the forefront of police surveillance. He quickly earned a name as the most successful operative of his time and his expertise was called upon by drugs squads around the country to tackle an ever growing problem. But after years on the streets, spending time with the vulnerable users at the bottom of the chain, Neil began to question the seemingly futile war he was risking both hi...
2017-04-2548 min
Little AtomsTwo Cultures: The power in our genesThe third and final Little Atoms Two Cultures in Conversation events took place in London on 17 January 2017, when Little Atoms’ Neil Denny was joined by novelist Naomi Alderman and science writer Adam Rutherford. Neil began by asking Naomi about her latest book, The Power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-02-091h 01
Little Atoms447: Michael Palin’s A Sackful of LimericksRecorded live at Waterstones Piccadilly on 1 December 2016, here's the last Little Atoms of 2016. Neil Denny chats with comedy legend Michael Palin about his book A Sackful of Limericks, followed by an audience Q&A. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-12-2046 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 423 - Eagles of podcasting!Recorded live at the Stoke Newington Literary festival, we gathered together the crème of UK literary podcasting and put them on the same stage, and inevitably they talked about books; With Andy Miller (Backlisted), Carrie Plitt & Octavia Bright (Literary Friction), our own Neil Denny, and occasional remote interjections from Robin Ince (Book Shambles). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-06-0859 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 412 - The Penderyn Music Book Prize specialThe Penderyn Music Book Prize is organised by Richard Thomas, founder of the Laugharne Weekend Festival, and is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles including history, theory, biography and autobiography. The winner will be announced at the Laugharne Weekend Festival on 3rd April 2016. In this special edition of Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks with shortlisted authors Stuart Cosgrove and Peter Doggett, and prize judge Jude Rogers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-03-3058 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 312 – Is Music Journalism in a Critical Condition?A special edition of Little Atoms for Resonance FM’s fundraising week. Recorded live at The Slaughtered Lamb on 10th February 2014.Is Music Journalism in a Critical Condition?The UK music scene once supported four weekly music papers, which wielded the power to form the musical agenda in a way that’s unimaginable today. Of these, only the NME staggers on in managed decline, along with an ever dwindling number of monthly magazines. The changing ways we consume music and the rise of the internet have radically changed the musical landscape, and perhaps this is a good thing. Those weeklies were...
2016-02-021h 28
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 402: Lisa Randall and Francesca KayOn this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Neil Denny talks to Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall about her new book Dark Matter and The Dinosaurs, and then Francesca Kay on her latest novel The Long Room.Lisa Randall is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists and the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. She has received numerous awards and honours and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of...
2016-01-2056 min
Little AtomsFrom the archive - Christopher HitchensIn this interview, recorded in Oxford ahead of the release of "God Is Not Great", Christopher Hitchens spoke to Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy about Richard Dawkins, Karl Marx, religion, blasphemy and nuclear apocalypse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-01-0659 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 394 – Zoe Lambert & Emma Jane Unsworth Little Atoms LiveThis week, a Live Little Atoms event. Authors Emma Jane Unsworth and Zoe Lambert in conversation with Neil Denny at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on Friday 25th September. Zoe Lambert is a Manchester based writer. She lectures in creative writing at Lancaster University, and has published numerous short stories in anthologies. Her debut […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-10-0757 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 392 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 ThreeThe last of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, ahead of the award ceremony on Thursday 24th September. This week Neil Denny talks with Matthew Cobb, and there’s a repeat of our interview with Alex Bellos from May 2014. The show also includes a short […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-09-231h 07
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 391 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 TwoThe second of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with David Adam, and there’s a repeat of our interview with Gaia Vince from August 2014. This show also marks the 10th anniversary of Little Atoms. We first broadcast on […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-09-1659 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 390 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 OneThe first of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with shortlisted authors Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe Mcfadden, and Jon Butterworth. Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-09-0957 minLittle AtomsLittle Atoms 376 – Gavin Francis & Adventures in Human BeingOn this week's Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to Dr Gavin Francis about his latest book is Adventures in Human Being. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-06-0356 minLittle AtomsLittle Atoms 372 – Wellcome Book Prize 2105 Part TwoNeil Denny talks to two more shortlisted writers, Henry Marsh and Marion Coutts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-04-2956 minLittle AtomsLittle Atoms 371 – Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Part OneOn Wednesday 29th April the winner of the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize will be announced. In the first of two special editions of Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to three of the shortlisted writers. This week: Miriam Toews, Scott Stossell and Sarah Moss. Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-04-2257 minLittle AtomsLittle Atoms 370 – Christopher Bollen & OrientOn this week's Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to New York writer Christopher Bollen about his new novel Orient. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-04-1556 minLittle AtomsLittle Atoms 365 – Salena Godden & Kate HamerOn this week’s Little Atoms, two interviews. Neil Denny talks to Salena Godden about her memoir Springfield Road, and to Kate Hamer about her debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat. Salena Godden writes and performs poetry, fiction, memoir, radio drama and lyrics. Her latest book of poems, Fishing in the Aftermath, was published in […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2015-03-1157 min