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Padgett Powell is regarded as one of the most interesting writers in America today. The New York Times calls him "a master of voice, a generator of absolutely particular, original, hilarious human sounds." Powell wishes he'd penned Absalom! Absalom!, and recommends a twisted fellow from Jacksonville as a young writer to watch. More...
Wednesday, 7 December, 2011
Thomas E. Kennedy is the author of eight novels, as well as several collections of short stories and essays, and has won numerous awards including the 2007 Eric Hoffer Award, the Pushcart Prize, the O. Henry Prize and the National Magazine Award. He can write anywhere as long as his literary partner is in hand. More...
Monday, 7 November, 2011
Alexander Maksik, Provost's Postgraduate Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa is also the recipient of a Truman Capote fellowship. Maksik, described by the New York Times as 'a talented debut novelist with a taste for French existentialism', owes it all to Hemingway, and writes for patient, passionate strangers. More...
Tuesday, 4 October, 2011
Jo Baker is the author of The Mermaid's Child, Offcomer, The Telling and her latest, The Picture Book. She teaches creative writing at Lancaster University, escapes with Pride and Prejudice, and can't wait for the next Hilary Mantel. More...
Monday, 5 September, 2011
Hari Kunzru is the author of numerous novels, including The Impressionist, and the story collection Noise. His short stories and journalism have appeared in publications as diverse as The New York Times, Guardian, New Yorker, Times of India, Wired and New Statesman. He lives in New York and is happy writing anywhere with a flat surface and tea-making facilities. More...
Thursday, 4 August, 2011
Selected by the New Yorker as one of their '20 Under 40' to watch, Chris Adrian lives in San Francisco, where he is a Fellow in Paediatric Hermatology/Oncology. He usually writes in Hello Kitty notebooks, and shares ideas with his dog. More...
Tuesday, 5 July, 2011
Jane Harris writes fiction and screenplays. Her first novel, The Observations, was nominated for the Orange Prize, and her most recent, Gillespie & I, published this month, inspired the Telegraph to write: "Harris's writing is a joy, excitable yet controlled, bawdy yet respectable." More...
Sunday, 22 May, 2011
Prize-winning author of The Immigrant and Home, New Delhi-based Manju Kapur tortures herself and a friend to perfect her writing craft. More...
Thursday, 21 April, 2011
David Baddiel, comedy writer, actor, journalist, stand-up and author of three previous novels, on being inspired by Updike, distracted in his study and writing only for himself. More...
Thursday, 24 March, 2011
South Africa-born, London-dwelling Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and the Whitbread Novel Award winner Leading the Cheers. He talks love, money and Tolstoy, and the comfort of the London Library. More...
Thursday, 24 February, 2011
E.C. Osondu won the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing for his story 'Waiting' and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He tells us about telling stories out loud and about wishing he wrote 'Blindness'. More...
Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Paul Bailey's novels include the Booker-shortlisted Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament. He tells us about that elusive near-perfect book, the influence of Dickens and his admiration for Alice Munro. More...
Monday, 20 December, 2010
Short-story craftsman David Means discusses his writing life at the desk, at the coffee shop and on the move, and reveals which fellow writers have inspired him. Get ready to dig... More...
Thursday, 25 November, 2010
Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer and critic. He shares his working methods with us, including the benefits of fear and neurosis. More...
Friday, 29 October, 2010
Tim Butcher, award-winning journalist and audacious adventurer, on the writing process that has shaped his new portrait of modern Africa, Blood River. More...
Thursday, 23 September, 2010
Tim Parks' is the author of several novels, including Tongues of Flame and Europa, as well as non-fiction and essays. His most recent book, Teach Us to Sit Still, traces his attempts to understand a cripplingly painful medical condition, and seek relief and recovery. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Christos Tsiolkas's fourth novel, The Slap, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been on the Australian bestseller list since it was first published in 2008. He lives in Melbourne. More...
Friday, 25 June, 2010
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell was named as one of Granta's twenty best young British novelists in 2003. His most recent book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, is published this month. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
Sadie Jones' first novel, The Outcast, won the Costa First Novel Award. Her latest book, Small Wars has just been longlisted for this year's Orange Prize. More...
Tuesday, 30 March, 2010
Amy Bloom's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times and Best American Short Stories. Her most recent novel was Away, and she has just published a collection of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
John Burnside has published five works of fiction and ten collections of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award. Wakig up in Toytown is his most recent novel. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Geoff Dyer is the author of Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger, The Ongoing Moment and most recently, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
David Malouf is the author of Dream Stuff, The Great World and Remembering Babylon. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he lives in Sydney. His latest novel Ransom is published this month. More...
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
The Scottish author's first novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing was published in 1990, since when she has written two further novels, a memoir, an opera, and numerous short stories. More...
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Husband and wife team Michael G. Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio write together under the pen name Michael Gregorio. A Visible Darkness is their third novel. More...
Monday, 7 September, 2009
Alaa Al Aswany is the Egyptian author of The Yacoubian Building and the short story collection Friendly Fire. More...
Saturday, 11 July, 2009
Poet and novelist Nick Laird was recenly awarded the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize for his collection of poems, On Purpose. Glover's Mistake is his second novel. More...
Tuesday, 7 April, 2009
T. C. Boyle is the author of twelve books, and many more short stories. His latest novel,The Women, is about the relationships in the life of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Tuesday, 10 March, 2009
French author of I Was Behind You. More...
Monday, 9 February, 2009
Author of Notes on a Scandal and The Believers.
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Tuesday, 13 January, 2009
Shalom Auslander is the author of the short story collection Beware of God, and his memoir Foreskin's Lament. More...
Monday, 8 December, 2008
James Salter is the author of Sport and a Pastime, Light Years and Last Night. Solo Faces is reprinted by Penguin this month. More...
Thursday, 6 November, 2008
Ali Smith, author of The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and her new short story collection The First Person and Other Stories, tells us how she writes. More...
Thursday, 2 October, 2008
James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard, and the new Bright Shiny Morning, tells us how he writes. More...
Friday, 5 September, 2008
Linn Ullmann's fourth book, A Blessed Child is a raw and blackly humorous portrait of three Scandinavian half-sisters set on the island of Hammarsö. The Norwegian native tells us how she writes. More...
Friday, 1 August, 2008
Julian Barnes, acclaimed author of Arthur and George, The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters and most recently his family memoir Nothing to be Frightened Of, tells us how he writes. More...
Friday, 4 July, 2008
Joe Dunthorne, literary chameleon and author of his enormously successful debut Submarine, takes a moment out from teaching, writing and performing to tell us how he writes. More...
Friday, 6 June, 2008
After the success of his bold debut novel Apples, which revisits the Garden of Eden on a Middlesborough estate, Richard Milward is hard at work on his second novel. More...
Thursday, 24 April, 2008
