Skip to content
Sign in
Artwork for Little Atoms
Society & CultureFiction

Little Atoms

Neil Denny

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.

Play
Open in
  • 22 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 30 min
  • English

Episodes 22

NewestOldestLongest
All20Unplayed20In progress0Played0
Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.
  • Thursday · 28 min

    Little Atoms Archive - Sarah Polley's Run Towards The Danger

    In the last episode of the Summer archive series, Sarah Polley talks to Neil about her book Run Towards The Danger, first broadcast in July 2022. Normal service resumes next week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • June 18 · 29 min

    Little Atoms Archive - Alice Winn's In Memoriam

    From March 2023, Neil talks to Alice Winn about her novel In Memoriam, which won the Waterstones Novel of the Year award, and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • June 4 · 32 min

    Little Atoms 1001 - Ann Patchett's Whistler

    Ann Patchett is the author of novels, works of nonfiction, and children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize in the U.K., and the National Humanities Medal. TIME magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Whistler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 28 · 32 min

    Little Atoms 1000 - Douglas Stuart's John of John

    Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain, his first novel, won the Booker Prize and both 'Debut of the Year' and 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction, among many other awards. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a number one Sunday Times Bestseller. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker. On this, the 1000th episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about his new novel John of John. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 21 · 28 min

    Little Atoms 999 - Daniel Lavelle's Chasing Aliens

    Daniel Lavelle is an Orwell Prize-winning freelance feature writer from Manchester. His first book, Down and Out, was published in 2022 and won a Royal Society of Literature award for non-fiction writing. He has covered topics such as mental health, homelessness, and culture for the Guardian (for whom he co-authored the series ‘The Empty Doorway’), New Statesman and the Independent. He received the Guardian’s Hugo Young award for an opinion piece on his experience of homelessness. ‘The Empty Doorway’ won Feature of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2019 and was nominated for the same award at the National Press Awards 2020. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book Chasing Aliens: Faith and Conspiracy in the UFO Heartlands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 14 · 40 min

    Little Atoms 998 - Daniel Trilling's If We Tolerate This

    Daniel Trilling writes about nationalism, migration and human rights for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and the New York Times. His work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Political Book Awards and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book, If We Tolerate This: How the British establishment made the far right respectable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 7 · 33 min

    Little Atoms 997 - Claire Fuller's Hunger and Thirst

    Claire Fuller gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written five previous novels including: Unsettled Ground, which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons, which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Hunger and Thirst. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • April 30 · 28 min

    Little Atoms 996 - Richard Byrne's Beauty Doesn't Reach Me

    Richard Byrne is a dramatist and journalist. He was the editor of The Wilson Quarterly from 2019 to 2021. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, Time, BookForum and Zona Motel. His music criticism includes liner notes for releases by R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo. His work as a dramatist includes two musicals: Nero/Pseudo (written with Jon Langford and Jim Elkington) and Congressman Davy (with Dean Schlabowske). His play, Hotel Mayflower, was published in a bilingual edition (English/German) by Moloko Print. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2024 Pandora Machine film, The Drowned Girl. Byrne gained notoriety recently with author Jarett Kobek for his role in recovering the plaintext for the long-unsolved K4 strand of the celebrated Kryptos cipher. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me. Content note: Discussion of suicide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • April 23 · 25 min

    Little Atoms 995 - Angela Tomaski's The Infamous Gilberts

    Angela Tomaski was born in Oxford and raised in Somerset with her four brothers and sisters. She has had a variety of different jobs, including as a waitress, cleaner, English teacher and activity coordinator in a care home. She has a daughter and two grandsons, and now lives in rural Dorset. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Infamous Gilberts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • April 17 · 26 min

    Little Atoms 994 - Sian Hughes' No Such Thing As Monday

    Sian Hughes is a writer who grew up in a small village in Cheshire. Her first collection of poetry The Missing was a Poetry Society Recommendation, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis and the Aldeburgh prizes, and won the Seamus Heaney Award. Sian's first novel Pearl was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 and shortlisted for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2024. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel No Such Thing As Monday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Showing 1–20 of 22 episodes