Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 106
34m
·
Granta
·
In 2022 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about a fear of forgetting, Lapeyrouse Cemetery and our cultural traditions around death.
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago currently living in London. Her debut novel When We Were Birds was named one of the Observer’s Best Debuts of 2022 and one of the Economist’s Best Books of 2022.
Read an excerpt from When We Were Birds here.
The episode Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 106 from the podcast Granta has a duration of
34:42. It was first published
More episodes from Granta
Brandon Taylor, The Granta Podcast
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (2020) and The Late Americans (2023), about naturalism, the future of fiction, and the connection between Émile Zola and The Sims.
We also discuss Taylor’s short story ‘Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre’, which appeared in Granta 166: Generations.
You can read ‘Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre’ here.
Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Jamaica Kincaid, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 111
In 2022 Jamaica Kincaid spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about childhood, the concept of memory and her early love of Paradise Lost.
Jamaica Kincaid grew up on the island of Antigua. She began writing for the New Yorker and went on to publish many books, including the novel Annie John and the collection of stories At the Bottom of the River. A number of her books have recently been reissued, or are forthcoming, from Picador in the UK.
Claire-Louise Bennett, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 110
Last year Claire-Louise Bennett and editor Josie Mitchell talked about rereading, resisting homogenisation and committing to the process of unravelling.
Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, a collection of short stories, and the 2021 novel Checkout 19.
Read an extract of Bennett's novel here.
Lynne Tillman, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 109
In 2022 Lynne Tillman and editor Josie Mitchell discussed the afterlife of novels, haunted houses and the sexual revolution.
Lynne Tillman is the author of many books, including the 2006 novel American Genius: A Comedy and the 2014 essay collection, What Would Lynne Tillman Do? Two of Tillman’s early works are now published in the UK by Peninsula Press: Weird Fucks and Haunted Houses.
Read an excerpt from Tillman’s memoir Mothercarehere.
Vanessa Onwuemezi, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 108
In 2022 Vanessa Onwuemezi spoke to editor Josie Mitchell about Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, sitting with strangeness and the joy of trying out new sounds on the page.
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London, her story ‘At the Heart of Things’ won the White Review Short Story Prize in 2019. Her debut story collection, Dark Neighbourhood, was published in 2021 by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Read ‘Cuba’, a short story from Dark Neighbourhood, here.