Little Atoms

By: Neil Denny
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  • Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny.

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    © Little Atoms 2005- 2024
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Episodes
  • Little Atoms 947 - Megan Hunter's Days of Light

    Little Atoms 947 - Megan Hunter's Days of Light
    Apr 17 2025
    Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Books Are My Bag Awards, longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Awards finalist and won the Forward Reviews Editor’s Choice Award. It was adapted into a major motion picture by Alice Birch, starring Jodie Comer and directed by Mahalia Belo. Her second novel, The Harpy, was Indie Book of the Month; she is currently adapting it for television with Red Planet Pictures. Her dramatic monologue Salt of the Earth premiered at Venice Film Festival. Megan’s other writing has appeared in the White Review, the TLS, Literary Hub, Vogue, Elle, BOMB, and elsewhere. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her new novel Days of Light.

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    33 mins
  • Little Atoms 946 - Ron Currie's The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

    Little Atoms 946 - Ron Currie's The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
    Apr 10 2025
    Ron Currie is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne.

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    26 mins
  • Little Atoms 945 - Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle

    Little Atoms 945 - Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle
    Apr 3 2025

    Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Call Me Ishmaelle.


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    28 mins
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