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Little Atoms

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.

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492 - Mohsin Hamid and Jon McGregor

492 - Mohsin Hamid and Jon McGregor

Mohsin Hamid writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author o... Read more

6 Feb 2018

1hr 6mins

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Little Atoms 353 – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein & Kenan Malik

Little Atoms 353 – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein & Kenan Malik

In this episode of Little Atoms, two philosophical interviews: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein received her doctorate in phi... Read more

19 Nov 2014

1hr 14mins

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Little Atoms 521 - Sarah Churchwell's Behold, America

Little Atoms 521 - Sarah Churchwell's Behold, America

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School o... Read more

5 Jul 2018

52mins

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Little Atoms 601 - Rachel DeLoache Williams' My Friend Anna

Little Atoms 601 - Rachel DeLoache Williams' My Friend Anna

Rachel DeLoache Williams is an ex-Vanity Fair photo editor and author of My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heires... Read more

26 Aug 2019

30mins

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Little Atoms 602 - Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror

Little Atoms 602 - Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self D... Read more

2 Sep 2019

28mins

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Little Atoms 564 - Fatima Bhutto's The Runaways

Little Atoms 564 - Fatima Bhutto's The Runaways

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1982. She grew up in Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of four prev... Read more

12 Mar 2019

34mins

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Little Atoms 540 - Michael Redhill's Bellevue Square

Little Atoms 540 - Michael Redhill's Bellevue Square

Michael Redhill is the author of nine novels including Consolation, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Martin Sloa... Read more

8 Oct 2018

31mins

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From The Archive - Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation

From The Archive - Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation

To see in the New Year, here's a repeat of our Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh from August. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fictio... Read more

1 Jan 2019

29mins

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Little Atoms 594 - Angela Saini's Superior

Little Atoms 594 - Angela Saini's Superior

Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Obse... Read more

8 Jul 2019

39mins

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Little Atoms 611 - Mars by 1980

Little Atoms 611 - Mars by 1980

Author and music journalist David Stubbs joins Neil to talk about his latest book Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic ... Read more

21 Oct 2019

32mins

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Little Atoms 390 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 One

Little Atoms 390 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 One

The first of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. T... Read more

9 Sep 2015

57mins

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438 – Thomas Frank's Listen, Liberal or, Whatever Happened to The Party of The People

438 – Thomas Frank's Listen, Liberal or, Whatever Happened to The Party of The People

Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What's the Matter with Kansas? A former colum... Read more

18 Oct 2016

37mins

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437 – Mark Greif's Against Everything

437 – Mark Greif's Against Everything

Mark Greif studied history and literature at Harvard, and English at Oxford as a British Marshall Scholar. In 2004, he c... Read more

11 Oct 2016

58mins

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From the archive: Adam Curtis's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

From the archive: Adam Curtis's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

This interview was first broadcast on 21 November 2008.Adam Curtis is a producer, writer and director of documentaries s... Read more

23 May 2017

28mins

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Little Atoms 386 – Stephen Grey & Dan Richards

Little Atoms 386 – Stephen Grey & Dan Richards

Stephen Grey is a journalist based in London, who writes mainly about national security issues. He is best known for bre... Read more

12 Aug 2015

1hr 14mins

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Little Atoms 465 - Ottessa Moshfegh & Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Little Atoms 465 - Ottessa Moshfegh & Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shor... Read more

30 May 2017

1hr 5mins

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Little Atoms 585 - Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Little Atoms 585 - Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor lives in Western Massachusetts and teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College. Lawlor is a fiction editor fo... Read more

23 May 2019

37mins

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Little Atoms 612 - Casey Cep's Furious Hours

Little Atoms 612 - Casey Cep's Furious Hours

Casey Cep is a writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in English, she ea... Read more

24 Oct 2019

48mins

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Little Atoms 625 - An Yu's Braised Pork

Little Atoms 625 - An Yu's Braised Pork

An Yu was born and raised in Beijing, and left at the age of eighteen to study in New York at NYU. A graduate of the NYU... Read more

28 Jan 2020

28mins

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Little Atoms 587 - Joanne Ramos' The Farm

Little Atoms 587 - Joanne Ramos' The Farm

Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton... Read more

3 Jun 2019

34mins

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