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Viet Thanh Nguyen; Lanark at 40; Costume and Power
Elizabeth Day talks to Pulitzer Prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Committed
Fiona Mozley, Jane Smiley, American working class novels with Jess Walter and Kristin Hannah
Elizabeth Day talks to Fiona Mozley about her second novel, Hot Stew.
Claire Fuller & Karla Neblett; Elizabeth Bowen; Katherine Heiny
Claire Fuller and Karla Neblett discuss their novels Unsettled Ground and King of Rabbits.
Spring Special: Bookshops Reopen, Naomi Ishiguro, Clearing out books
Johny Pitts visits his local bookshop and talks to Naomi Ishiguro about her debut novel.
Chris Power; Online Dating in Fiction; Postcard from Delhi
Chris Power talks about A Lonely Man
Jon McGregor; Chester Himes; Editors Tip
Johny Pitts talks to Jon McGregor about Lean Fall Stand.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri talks to Elizabeth Day.
Hollie McNish, Modern American Short Stories, Twins
Hollie McNish talks about her new book Slug and other things I've been told to hate.
New Irish Writing, Book Dedications, Mary Gaitskill on Madame Bovary
Elizabeth Day talks to Lisa McInerney and Lucy Caldwell
Tech startups in fiction; Editor's Tip; sensitivity reading.
Tech startups, and representing deafness in fiction.
Jonathan Lee, Reinvention novels with Natasha Brown and Anna Glendenning, Computer Games & fiction
Chris Power speaks to Jonathan Lee about his new novel, The Great Mistake
Zakiya Dalila Harris
Elizabeth Day talks to Zakiya Dalila Harris about her debut novel, The Other Black Girl.
Damon Galgut
Elizabeth Day speaks to Damon Galgut about his Booker shortlisted novel, The Promise.
Japanese fiction; Vendela Vida
As the Tokyo Olympics approach, a look at some of the best novels coming out of Japan.
Miranda Cowley Heller and Summer reading round up
Chris Power speaks to Miranda Cowley Heller about her debut The Paper Palace.
Anuk Arudpragasam
Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about Booker-longlisted novel A age North
Jean Hanff Korelitz, Georgette Heyer, Marilynne Robinson
Chris Power talks to Jean Hanff Korelitz about her new book The Plot
Leïla Slimani, Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work 20 years on with Kate Mosse and Laura Dockrill, Richard Beard
Chris Power speaks to Leïla Slimani about her new book, The Country of Others.
David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library
Johny Pitts talks to David Grossman.
Making it new? Literature of the Twenties Special
Johny Pitts explores the 20s with Alison MacLeod, Bill Goldstein, James Clammer & Jo Hamya
Colson Whitehead
Elizabeth Day talks to Colson Whitehead in a feature length interview about Harlem Shuffle
Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about Endgame
Rabih Alameddine, English PEN at 100 with Philippe Sands and Elif Shafak, Editors' Pick
Johny Pitts speaks to Rabih Alameddine about his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope
Jonathan Franzen, Amitav Ghosh, Nina Mingya Powles
Jonathan Franzen talks to Elizabeth Day about his novel Crossroads.
Lauren Groff
Johny Pitts speaks to Lauren Groff.
Sarah Hall
Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat.
Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival
Elizabeth and Johny present a special programme from LLF on literary friendship.
The diaries of Patricia Highsmith; Contemporary views of the American West
Chris Power talks to Stella Duffy and Anna Von Planta about Patricia Highsmith's diaries
Teaching teenagers with J J Bola; cutting the environmental footprint of books
JJ Bola speaks to Johny Pitts about his new novel, The Selfless Act of Breathing.
Love, relationships, and road trips with Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout talks to Elizabeth Day about her new novel, Oh William!
Behind locked doors with Claire Keegan; Alan Cumming's book he would never lend
Claire Keegan talks to Chris Power about her new book, Small Things Like These.
