• Little Atoms 954 - Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
    Jun 5 2025

    Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and her work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Granta and other places. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.


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    29 mins
  • Little Atoms 953 - Daria Lavelle's Aftertaste
    May 29 2025

    Daria Lavelle writes fiction, most of which features at least one impossible thing. Her stories have appeared in Dark Matter, The Deadlands and Dread Machine, among others. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and enjoys opera, escape rooms, and checking restaurants off her bucket list. She was born in Kyiv before immigrating to the US as a child. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Aftertaste.


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    29 mins
  • Little Atoms 952 - Michael Pedersen's Muckle Flugga
    May 23 2025
    Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning poet and author of Boy Friends, which was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and is the current Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's Makar. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his first novel Muckle Flugga.

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    30 mins
  • Little Atoms 951 - Cate Baum's Land Of Hope
    May 15 2025

    Cate Baum was born in Cambridge to a magician and a big band singer. She grew up in the East Anglian countryside, spending summers roaming the wilds of the UK. She studied screenwriting at UCLA and gained a master’s with Distinction in Creative Writing from City, University of London. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel Land of Hope.


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    28 mins
  • Little Atoms 950 - Eley Williams' Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
    May 8 2025

    Eley Williams' collection of short stories Attrib. & Other Stories won the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her writing appears in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, Liberating the Canon, the TLS and the London Review of Books. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of the novel The Liar’s Dictionary and on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest story collection Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good, which is out now in paperback.


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    28 mins
  • Little Atoms 949 - Simon Park's Wreckers
    May 1 2025

    Simon Park is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is an expert in the literature and material culture of the early modern world, particularly from Portugal and its vast global empire. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery.


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    28 mins
  • Little Atoms 948 - Danielle Giles' Mere
    Apr 24 2025
    Danielle Giles is a writer and researcher based in Bristol. She has been published (writing as Danielle Vrublevskis) in Extra Teeth and Dear Damsels, shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. She won the Local Prize in the 2023 Bath Short Story Award. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel Mere.

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    27 mins
  • 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
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