This Writing Life
Episodes
Friday Aug 28, 2015
Episode 28 - Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life - Part 2
Friday Aug 28, 2015
Friday Aug 28, 2015
In the second part of our lunch-time chat with Hanya Yanagihara for the amazing A Little Life, we began by discussing how her second book was a reaction to her debut, the also amazing The People in the Trees.
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
Episode 27 - Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life - Part 1
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
For the second Writing Life Podcast conversation with Hanya Yanagihara, we moved from tea at a posh London hotel to lunch at a posh(ish) London restaurant. This was not the only difference. Yanagihara had herself moved: jobs, from Conde Nast to the New York Times; and novels from her debut The People in the Trees to A Little Life, which has recently been long-listed for the Man Booker prize.
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
Episode 26 - Anna Smaill: Part 2
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
In part two of This Writing Life's podcast with Anna Smaill, we negotiate photographers, noises in RIBA and publicists to discuss her soon-to-be Man Booker longlisted debut novel, The Chimes.
Saturday Aug 15, 2015
Episode 25 - Anna Smaill Part 1
Saturday Aug 15, 2015
Saturday Aug 15, 2015
Anna Smaill is a New Zealand poet, academic and now Man Booker longlisted novelist.
Tuesday Aug 11, 2015
Episode 24 - Hanya Yanagihara: The People in Trees - Part 3
Tuesday Aug 11, 2015
Tuesday Aug 11, 2015
In the final part of my Yanagihara trilogy from 2014, we continue to discuss her astonishing, unnerving debut The People in the Trees.
Thursday Aug 06, 2015
Episode 23 - Hanya Yanagihara: The People in Trees - Part 2
Thursday Aug 06, 2015
Thursday Aug 06, 2015
In the second part of my nicely noisy conversation with Hanya Yanagihara about her debut novel The People in the Trees, we began by discussing
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Episode 22- Hanya Yanagihara: The People in Trees - Part 1
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Hawaiian-born Hanya Yanagihara has been feted across the world, and longlisted for 2015's Man Booker Prize, for her amazing A Little Life. A Writing Life podcast is on the way.
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Episode 21 - Hanya Yanagihara 2014 on Book Groups
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
A short taster for my first interview with Hanya Yanagihara from 2014 about her extraordinary debut novel, The People in Trees.
A Writing Life podcast with Hanya about her differently extraordinary Man Booker longlisted A Little Life will be out last this month.
For now, enjoy Yanagihara on encountering an Upper East Side book group.
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Episode 20 - Tom Drury Part 3
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
In the third part of my conversation with Tom Drury, we rewind to his days studying creative writing with Robert Coover, 'a great teacher'.
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
Episode 19 - Tom Drury on the Internet
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
A small taster for part three of my chat with Tom Drury. We talk MP3s, social networking, email, and The New Luddites from the third Grouse County novel, Pacific.
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
Episode 18 - Tom Drury Part 2
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
Saturday Aug 01, 2015
In the second part of my interview with Tom Drury, one of America's finest living novelists, we begin by discussing the railroad and its part in linking places like Grouse County to the outside world.