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Bonus Content - Benjamin Markovits on Subtexts,...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/04/03

“It’s my mum’s favourite book that I wrote!”Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber. Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of college, he’s moving out too. His wife had an affair, and he feels like he owes himself a road trip across America. He takes in the sights, sounds and basketball games of the American heartland and beyond. But he’s deferring some health issues and it seems like

33:04

Benjamin Markovits on Basketball, Family, and Illness

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/03/20

‘The people I like to write about are what I would describe as moderately successful failures.’Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber. Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of college, he’s moving out too. His wife had an affair, and he feels like he owes himself a road trip across America. He takes in the sights, sounds and basketball games of the American heartland and beyond. But

07:40

Bonus Content with Marni Appleton - Taylor Swift, and...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/03/06

"Taylor Swift is somebody who has managed to keep reinventing herself to stay relevant."Welcome to Rippling Points, more content and more insights and inspiration into the craft of literature: Marni Appleton is here to talk about her short story collection, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, published by Indigo Press. We discuss: - How Taylor Swift's ability to reinvent herself and stay relevant differs to that of the characters - Ideas of productivity and how they shouldn't reflect your value in the

32:22

Marni Appleton on Spotlights, Mirrors and the Art of...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/02/20

"It builds to women and girls choosing to hide their mouths because of the effect of this trend...things just morph and take on different meanings as they're shared in different contexts"Marni Appleton is here to talk about her collection of short stories, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, published by The Indigo Press. The modern world Marni presents to us in her stories is one that feels incredibly liberating, but then hinged by archaic attitudes from the past all at the same time. Women go viral on social

08:08

Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Vincenzo...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/02/06

"Being published in English is a big milestone..."Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, published by Fitzcarraldo editions and translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes. Welcome to Rippling Points, more content insights and inspiration into the craft of literature: - How and why he set his novel in Berlin, or why locations don't become so important for the novel - The global market of translation and the pleasure of being translated

32:31

Vincenzo Latronico on Perfection, Authenticity, and...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/01/23

“Love is a dangerous topic.”Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, published by Fitzcarraldo editions and translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes. Vincenzo is one of the most distinguished novelists writing in Italian today. He has also translated many books into Italian, by authors such as George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hanif Kureishi. In PERFECTION, there’s something missing from Anna and Tom’s life, and they can’t

09:19

Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Pola Oloixarac -...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/01/08

“They had one objective - to get rid of certain men”Welcome to the first edition of Rippling Points - bonus content from last month’s episode! A little bit more insight and a little bit more inspiration into the craft of writing! Here, you can hear Pola talking about her delve into the archives to learn more about Argentina in 1970s. You’ll then hear Pola talking about her next project, Bad Hombre - which features real life accounts collected from Pola of women who were wanting to ‘ruin men’s

37:45

Pola Oloixarac and Unreliability, Energies, and Dopamine

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/12/11

“I think it’s much more interesting to explore women through their powers.”Pola Oloixarac, one of the most exciting voices in world literature today, is here to talk about her two novels that have been translated into English. Most recently SAVAGE THEORIES and then MONA (translated by Roy Kesey). Both are published by Serpent’s Tail. She was named by Granta as one of the Best Young Spanish novelists as well as this and has written for a wide range of publications and an Eccles Centre

34:21

Iris Mwanza - Zambia, Human Rights, and Elections

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/11/21

"I think it's a story few people have told before. And it's really about, what does a defender of human rights look like?"Iris Mwanza is here to talk about her novel, THE LION'S DEN (Canongate Books). Iris's novel is about a human rights lawyer, Grace Zulu, whose client Willbess ‘Bessy’ Mulenga, has been arrested for offences ‘against nature. It launches Grace, and Iris, into the underbelly of the legal system. Iris is deputy director of the Gender Equality Division of the Bill & Melinda

33:44

Friða Ísberg and THE MARK

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2024/10/24

“The book is me trying to have a conversation with my father and reach a middle ground.”Friða Ísberg is here to talk about THE MARK (Faber and Faber) translated by Larissa Kyzer. The book centres on a referendum in Iceland about whether mandatory tests should be imposed on its citizens. Friða talks about writing over the divide, arguments with her father, and Icelandic literary culture and how they have all shaped the book. Rippling Points 02:05 - what is the mark? 04:12 - where are the

32:03

Naomi Wood and THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/09/19

“Some people have been, oh these women are so grotesque. I don’t think they are! They’re quite relatable.”Naomi Wood joins me to discuss THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS (Published by Orion) It’s a collection that features the BBC Short Story Prize winner, Comorbidities. We talk about different kinds of intimacy in the stories, and how or why Naomi often writes about mothers in the . Naomi also talks about the craft and how she clashed registers to dazzling effect. Naomi Wood is the

33:02

Sam Sax and YR DEAD

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/08/22

"I think their experience in the bookstore is trying to think literary inheritance and spiritual and intellectual experience."Sam sax is here to discuss YR DEAD, their debut novel about Ezra, a queer, non-binary 27-year-old of Jewish heritage, whose life we see in fragments and flashbacks when they self-immolate outside trump tower. We talk about qualities of wandering, the multiplicities of Jewish identities, and what second hand bookstores can tell us about legacies and life. Sam's PIG was

34:48

Jennifer Lucy Allan and CLAY: A HUMAN HISTORY

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/07/23

"I'd done a lot of clay-making...you can spend a lifetime and only get good at one technique!"Jennifer Lucy Allan joins me to talk about her second book, CLAY: A HUMAN HISTORY (White Rabbit Books). After Jennifer's exploration and writing about sound in The Foghorn's Lament (White Rabbit Books), Jennifer has, quite literally, turned her hand to a more physical and enduring substance in clay. From Japanese Tea Ceremonies, to humans making their own image, to life on Mars, clay is seemingly

32:48

Bruce Omar Yates and The Muslim Cowboy

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/06/20

"This book is begging to be written...It has this a frontier-ness to it..."Bruce Omar Yates is here to discuss his upcoming novel published by Dead Ink Books, THE MUSLIM COWBOY . In a contemporary and entertaining novel set in aftermath of the Iraq war, a man who is obsessed with old Western movies dresses in double denim and roams a lawless landscape in search of his own Western story. Rippling Points 1.32 - Bruce's family and how these fed into ideas about a 'muslim cowboy' 4.30 - Nameless

31:50

Claire Carroll and The Unreliable Nature Writer

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/05/24

"The smotheringly neutral voice"Claire Carroll is here to talk about her new and debut collection of short stories THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER. A truly candid insight into the workings of craft and being a writer from one of the most exciting and upcoming fiction writers today. THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER is published by Scratch Books - more here Rippling Points 2.00 - Claire's dreams and reading. 4.55 - The different personal and impersonal voices in Claire's work 10:37 - Being a writer

32:44

Marchelle Farrell and By the River

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/04/24

"The garden is a co-author"Marchelle Farrell is here to talk about her essay in a new anthology from Daunt Books, BY THE RIVER: ESSAYS FROM THE WATER'S EDGE. I've wanted to talk to Marchelle since the publication of UPROOTING: FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO THE COUNTRYSIDE - Canongate Books), so it was great to have her here when she's part of an anthology featuring the likes of Caleb Azumah Nelson and Tessa Hadley. Marchelle, a consultant psychiatrist as well as a writer, often blends personal history

33:00

Marianne Brooker and Intervals

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/03/13

"I wanted to be talking choice in a way that was routed in a social context, and that was true to the particularity and intimacy that I shared with my mum at the end of her life."Marianne Brooker is here to talk about her Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlisted essay, INTERVALS, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Marianne talks about her life and living with her mother who was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. The book is a blend of memoir, philosophy, literary criticism,

32:02

Dawn Garisch and Breaking Milk

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/02/21

"That whole question of the invisible life...that there's something going on we cannot see that determines our health and the future of the planet."Dawn Garisch, one of South Africa's most pre-eminent writers, joins the Rippling Pages to talk about Breaking Milk, published in the UK by Heloise Press. Shortlisted for the prestigious Sunday Times South Africa/CNA Literary Awards '21, it finally lands on our shores. Dawn is also a doctor and a CEO of the Life Righting Collective, a non-profit

32:55

Rachel Mann and Eleanor Among the Saints

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/01/25

"Wounds, whilst they open us to the world...they can be points of infection." Welcome to 2024 and a new episode of the Rippling Pages. Rachel Mann is a poet, scholar, novelist and Anglican priest. She is Rachel Mann is here to talk about her new collection, Eleanor Among the Saints (Carcanet), which takes inspiration from the life of Eleanor 'John' Rykener. A trans woman, seamstress, embroider, and sex worker who lived in medieval England. More info about the book here This is Rachel's second

31:20

Jo Scott-Coe on the Life and Death of Kathy Leissner...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2023/12/06

"Kathy had a documentary impulse that is teaching us now." Jo Scott-Coe returns to the Rippling Pages to talk about her latest book, UNHEARD WITNESS: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KATHY LEISSNER WHITMAN (University of Texas Press) Jo is a previous guest of the podcast, joining us in Series 2 to discuss MASS (Pelekinesis), an account of Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower Shooter. Listen to that episode here: https://ripplingpages.podbean.com/e/jo-scott-coe-on-mass/ Now she returns to discuss a follow-up

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