This episode of Little Atoms is a double bill of interviews with a couple of writers and academics who’s work in different ways play on ideas of philosophy and literature. Lars Iyer is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on the philosopher Maurice Blanchot […]
April 5, 2013
Sarah Wise took an MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her book The Blackest Streets was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize in 2009. Her debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London, was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger […]
March 29, 2013
Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behavior and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. Tim has written many books, including Among […]
March 15, 2013
This is the third in a series of Little Atoms interviews in which Neil Denny talks to the producers of podcasts he likes about why they do what they do. Call it podcaster therapy! Shift Run Stop is a comedy podcast presented by Leila Johnston and Roo Reynolds and full to the brim with games, geeks […]
March 8, 2013
Will Storr is a longform journalist and novelist. His features have appeared in various publications, including Guardian Weekend, The Times Magazine, GQ, Marie Claire and the Sydney Morning Herald. He is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine. He has been named New Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year, and has won a […]
March 1, 2013
Ann Druyan is an author and television and film writer & producer whose work is largely concerned with the effects of science and technology on our civilization. She was co-writer with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning television series COSMOS, and as the founder and CEO of COSMOS STUDIOS, she is currently working […]
February 22, 2013
Naomi Alderman grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA. Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages; like her second novel, The Lessons, it was read on BBC radio’s Book at Bedtime. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers. In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, […]
February 15, 2013
This is the second of a new strand of Little Atoms interviews in which Neil Denny talks to the hosts of some of his favorite podcasts. Answer Me This! podcast is a weekly comedy podcast in which Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann answer questions submitted by their listeners, with the assistance of Martin the Sound Man. Despite being recorded in a […]
February 8, 2013
David Quammen is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the author of several acclaimed natural history titles. His book, The Song of the Dodo, won the BP Natural World Book Prize in 1996. His most recent book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.
February 1, 2013
Maria Konnikova was born in Moscow and grew up in the United States. She writes the weekly Literally Psychedcolumn for Scientific American, and formerly wrote the popular psychology blog Artful Choice for Big Think. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied psychology, creative writing, and government. She also holds an MPhil in psychology and an […]
April 19, 2013
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