Unsound Methods

Episode 66 with Sarah Bernstein

Episode 65 with Ron Butlin

Episode 64 with Amina Cain

Episode 63 with Christopher Priest

Episode 62 with Bill Drummond

Episode 61 with Iman Mersal

Episode 60 with Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams This month, we are speaking to not one but two authors as we discuss collaborative writing with Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams. Natasha and Luke are the joint authors of Diego Garcia, winner of the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize. We talk about their unique approach to crafting a novel and the differences between empathy and solidarity, as ...

Episode 59 with David Shields

Episode 58 with Johanna Hedva

Episode 57 with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Episode 56 with Daisy Hildyard

Episode 55 with Ewan Fernie & Simon Palfrey

Episode 54 with Jenny Landreth

Episode 53 with Etgar Keret

Episode 52 with Daniel Davis Wood.

Episode 51 with Claudia Durastanti. This month we speak to writer and translator Claudia Durastanti. We cover the importance of travel and geography in writing, mapping fictional spaces, translation and the overlap of metaphor between languages. Claudia is the author of Strangers I Know and Cleopatra Goes To Prison, translated to English, as well as well as Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi al...

Episode 50 with Miguel Cullen.

Episode 49 with Sara Baume.

Episode 48 with Richard Beard.

Episode 47 with Sam Byers

Episode 46 with Keith Ridgway

Episode 45 with Jenn Ashworth

Episode 44 with Lucie Elven

Episode 43 with Rebecca Watson

Episode 42 with Natasha Brown

Episode 41 with Sophie Mackintosh

Episode 40 with David Goldblatt

Episode 39 with DBC Pierre

Episode 38 with Jon McGregor

Episode 37 - Douglas Robertson on translating Thomas Bernhard

Episode 36 - the launch of Jaimie Batchan's novel Siphonophore

Episode 35 with John Englehardt.

Episode 34 with David Keenan.

Episode 33 of Unsound Methods with Gabriel Josipovici

Episode 32 of Unsound Methods with Anakana Schofield

Episode 31 of Unsound Methods - Reading and Writing in the time of lockdown...

Episode 30 with Jen Calleja.

Episode 29 of Unsound Methods with Hamid Ismailov.

Episode 28 of Unsound Methods with Jonathan Simons of the Analog Sea.

Episode 27 with Caleb Klaces

Episode 26: Vesna Main

Episode 25 with Tony White.

Episode 24 with Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Episode 23 with Mazin Saleem

Episode 22 of Unsound Methods - Shiromi Pinto

In episode 21 we sit down with Mathias Énard, winner of the Prix Goncourt, to speak to him about his process, the line between history and fiction and the benefits of a good pair of slippers.

This month we speak to Norwegian author and artist Edy Poppy. Edy's debut novel Anatomi. Monotoni. won the Gylendal Prize in 2005 and was recently published in English as Anatomy. Monotony. by Dalkey Archive. Tr. May-Brit Akerholt. Anatomy. Monotony. (https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/anatomy-monotony/) is available at Dalkey Archive Press, who will also publish the collection Coming. Apart...

In this episode we speak to novelist, bookseller and publisher Samuel Fisher. Sam's debut 'the Chameleon' was published by Salt in 2018. You can buy the Chameleon here: Salt - the Chameleon (https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-chameleon-9781784631246) As we mention at the beginning, there were some technical issues with the sound on one of the microphones in this episode - apologies,...

In episode 18, we speak to Marc Nash, most recently author of 'Three Dreams in the Key of G', published by Dead Ink in 2018. Marc joined us in London to discuss choosing the playlist to write to, intense bursts of writing during the summer holidays, using the editing process to add material rather than remove, playing through language, writing across gender and plenty more. You can follow Mar...

Welcome all to the first Unsound Methods of 2019! This month, we are delighted to be joined for a second time by Eimear McBride. In episode 12 we spoke to Eimear alongside Noémi Lefebvre but we didn't have much time to speak to them before that evening's event, so Eimear was kind enough to come to the studio for a more extended chat. Among other subjects in this episode we discuss Eimear's pro...