Novelist Neel Mukherjee talks to Kit Caless about the difficulties of naming your influences, Penelope Fitzgerald, Samuel Beckett and more.

Irfan Master reads his short story 'The Basin' in one, uninterrupted go.

Ayesha Siddiqi reads her short story 'Woman Left To Her Devices' in one, uninterrupted go.

Lucy Caldwell reads her story 'Fiction' in one, uninterrupted go.

Shiromi Pinto reads her short story, 'Decades' in one, uninterrupted go.

Joelle Taylor reads her short story, 'Swim Against The Song' in one, uninterrupted go.

Courttia Newland introduces the "One Take Wonder" series and reads his short story, 'Breathless, The Pale' in one, uninterrupted go.

Stuart Evers talks to Kit Caless about Eva Figes's influence on his writing and way of seeing the transformational potential of literature.

We talk about Fear. What are publishers afraid of? What gives us the shits when a book is about to be released? What is publishing itself afraid of? Change or stasis, commercial success or critical acclaim?

What is it that we fear from the reader and the critic?

All this and more.

Niven Govinden talks to Kit Caless about his current author favourite, Giorgio Bassani. Covering Italian post-war writing, the Other, anti-fascism and more.