Episodes

  • Little Atoms 904 - Jon Savage's The Secret Public

    Little Atoms 904 - Jon Savage's The Secret Public
    Jun 24 2024

    Jon 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).



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    33 mins
  • Little Atoms 903 - Julia Armfield's Private Rites

    Little Atoms 903 - Julia Armfield's Private Rites
    Jun 20 2024
    Julia 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 show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Private Rites.

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    29 mins
  • Little Atoms 902 - Noreen Masud's A Flat Place

    Little Atoms 902 - Noreen Masud's A Flat Place
    Jun 17 2024
    Noreen 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.

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    30 mins
  • Little Atoms 901 - Clare Pollard's The Modern Fairies

    Little Atoms 901 - Clare Pollard's The Modern Fairies
    Jun 13 2024
    Clare 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.

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    31 mins
  • Little Atoms 900 - Kevin Barry's The Heart In Winter

    Little Atoms 900 - Kevin Barry's The Heart In Winter
    Jun 6 2024
    Kevin 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 talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Heart In Winter.

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    32 mins
  • Little Atoms 899 - Rachel Khong's Real Americans

    Little Atoms 899 - Rachel Khong's Real Americans
    May 30 2024

    Rachel 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.



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    28 mins
  • Little Atoms 898 - Ayana Mathis's The Unsettled

    Little Atoms 898 - Ayana Mathis's The Unsettled
    May 23 2024
    Ayana 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.

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    38 mins
  • Little Atoms 897 - Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time

    Little Atoms 897 - Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time
    May 16 2024
    Kaliane 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.

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    29 mins