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Digital Subscriptions, Interviews, Litro #139: No Such Luck
Where There’s Smoke…: In Conversation with Kim Davies
When I was an undergrad, I went to a college that had a really pervasive date rape problem and is actually now under investigation for covering up rape under Title ...
Author Q&A with Urban Waite
Urban Waite – author of the critically acclaimed thrillers The Terror of Living and The Carrion Birds – talks about his latest novel, Sometimes the Wolf.
Q&A: Robin Sloan on Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan, author of Litro’s current Book Club pick, tells us how the idea for the novel came from a tweet.
Latitude: An Interview with Nathan Filer
Nathan Filer’s debut novel, The Shock of the Fall was released to critical acclaim in May. We managed to grab a quick word before he headed down to Latitude Festival.
An Epic Project: Interview with Richard House on The Kills
Litro contributor Richard House tells us about his four-novel series The Kills, a political thriller and epic literary project that’s set to be one of the literary events of the ...
A Dark and Bloody Debut: Jack Wolf on The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
“Laurence Sterne wouldn’t have written this novel. He’d have probably read it in the dark, and then not admitted to reading it. The 18th century couldn’t have published this, unless ...
Life After a Cult: Peggy Riley on writing Amity & Sorrow
“I wanted to create my own faith from all the faiths and cults that I remember while I was growing up, from the California cults of Charles Manson and Reverend ...
After the Apocalypse: Going Underground in Hugh Howey’s Wool
The next Hunger Games? Dystopian-fiction fan Emily Ding reviews Hugh Howey’s Wool and chats with the Florida-based author about his journey from self-publishing sensation to Big-Six author, and how it ...
Between Myth and History: An Interview with Travis Elborough
When we learnt the nursery rhyme about the bridge at school our teacher made a remark about it being sold to America, and my interest was piqued at a young ...
New Voices: Gavin Extence on his debut novel The Universe Versus Alex Woods
I’m a big fan of teenage narrators – I like what you can do in terms of exploring the large, adult ideas that most of us start to think about ...
Russ Litten Introduces Swear Down, Our Current Book Club Title
One of the lads I worked with in prison had LOYALTY ABOVE ALL LAWS tattooed down the inside of his arm and I became interested in the consequences of living ...
Cassandra Parkin, Author of New World Fairy Tales
I once locked myself in the bathroom at a glossy corporate function so I could carry on writing. I was supposed to be schmoozing people and making good contacts, and ...
Lynn Shepherd: Author of A Treacherous Likeness
My latest, A Treacherous Likeness, has as one of its central characters the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, an anti-hero if ever there was one. He’s a fascinating mix – enormously ...
New Voices: Hanna Jameson on her debut novel Something You Are
I’ve got details in the sense that I can kind of see the novels in my head, but I don’t really write outlines down — I’m not very good at ...
Shelley Harris: Author of Jubilee
Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is as humane and compassionate as all of Chabon’s work, its prose a continual delight (and a source of some jealousy), ...
Anjali Joseph: Author of Saraswati Park
I think I had a crush on J. D. Salinger’s Seymour Glass, and before that, a non-romantic but intense crush on Sherlock Holmes. A mystery was going to bring him ...
Matt Haig: Author of The Radleys
I am lethal with money. In 2003, fifteen grand in debt, I decided to give up my job and write a novel. Also, now I have a bit of money ...
Eowyn Ivey: Author of The Snow Child
If I found myself in a Fahrenheit 451 world, I would be the fool running around grabbing as many books as I could until my arms were full and I ...
Stephen Gallagher: Author of The Kingdom of Bones
The first book I ever loved was The Rocket Ship Saboteurs by John Townsend. It’s not a great book – I’ve tracked it down since – but it was my ...