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  • 26: Vesna Main
    In Episode 26, we speak to Vesna Main, author of Good Day? (Salt, 2019) which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year. Vesna has previously published A Woman with No Clothes On (Delancey Press 2008) and The Reader the Writer (Mirador, 2015). Temptation: A User’s Guide, a collection of her short stories, was published by Salt in January 2018.

    https://www.saltpublishing.com/collections/author-vesna-main

    Vesna is on Twitter @VesnaMain

    Find us on Twitter: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloom

    Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan

    Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/

    Photo credit: Chris Gilbert
    1 hr 1 min
  • 25: Tony White
    In episode 25, we speak to Tony White, author of ‘The Fountain in the Forest’ (Faber, 2018) as well as ‘Road Rage’, ‘Satan Satan Satan’, ‘Charlieunclenorfolktango’, ‘Foxy-T’, ‘Shackleton’s Man Goes South’, the non-fiction title ‘Another Fool in the Balkans’, and many other short stories, novellas and collaborations. He was writer in residence at the Science Museum, and his novella with artists Blast Theory, ‘Zombies Ate My Library’, was shortlisted for for best novella in the Saboteur Awards 2017.
    We spoke to Tony about using mandated vocabulary, how working with artists who use other forms can lead to new approaches, writing a novel in Multicultural London English, and much more.

    Tony is on Twitter: @tony_white_
    Instagram: @pieceofpaperpress
    Website: https://pieceofpaperpress.com/

    Find us on Twitter: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloom

    Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan

    Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/
    59 min
  • 24: Yara Rodrigues Fowler
    In Episode 24, we speak to Yara Rodrigues Fowler, the author of Stubborn Archivist (Fleet, 2019).

    We spoke to Yara about publisher demands to make her novel at least twice as long, the power of white space, developing a two-headed bildungsroman, the challenges facing contemporary Brazil and how writers are facing them.

    You can buy Stubborn Archivist via this page: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/yara-rodrigues-fowler/stubborn-archivist/9780708899076/

    Yara is on Twitter @yazzarf
    Instagram @yararodriguesfowler
    And her website is: yararodriguesfowler.com

    Find us on Twitter: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloom

    Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan

    Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/
    52 min
  • 23: Mazin Saleem
    In Episode 23 we speak to Mazin Saleem, the author of 'the Prick', published as part of Open Pen's series of novelettes. We speak to Mazin about discovering that you're not really a night-owl, using software to improve your writing productivity, and the freedom of jumping around the manuscript while editing to keep things fresh. You can buy the Prick here: https://www.openpen.shop/store/p9/theprick.html
     You can find out more about Mazin and his writing at: www.mazinsaleem.com

    The online poetry magazine that Jaimie mentions at the end is called Harana Poetry, and can be found here: https://www.haranapoetry.com/

    Mazin isn't on Twitter, but we are: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloom

    Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan

    Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/
    48 min
  • 22: Shiromi Pinto
    In episode 22, we speak to Shiromi Pinto, the author of 'Plastic Emotions' (2019, Influx Press) and 'Trussed' (2006, Serpent's Tail). You can order Plastic Emotions here.

    We spoke to Shiromi about her use of real letters to produce fiction; what she does with her writing offcuts; how far 500 words a day can get you; and losing faith, spiking a project, and then finding the courage to pick it up again to drag it all the way to publication.

    Shiromi is on Twitter @blimundaseyes

    As are we: @UnsoundMethods - @JaimieBatchan - @LochlanBloom

    Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan

    Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/
    50 min
  • 21: Mathias Énard
    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.

    Mathias' work includes the novels ‘Zone’, ‘Compass’, ‘Street of Thieves’ and ‘Tell them of Battles, Kings and Elephants’ which he was promoting when we spoke to him towards the end of last year. All of these novels have been published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and can be purchased here: https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/authors/mathias-enard

    Apologies once more for a couple of audio glitches on this episode - we're working on it.

    To find out more about the podcast, follow us on twitter @UnsoundMethods or go to unsoundmethods.co.uk

    If you enjoy the podcast, please 'like and subscribe' wherever you listen.
    43 min
  • 20: Edy Poppy
    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. is available at Dalkey Archive Press, who will also publish the collection Coming. Apart. (containing the 'Dungeness' short story that we discuss) 

    More information about Edy and her writing is available at: https://eng.gyldendal.no/Gyldendal/Authors/Poppy-Edy
    Interview with Siri Hustvedt: Edy Poppy Talks Sex, Love, and Boredom with Siri Hustvedt

    Photo of Edy Poppy taken by Julie-Christine Krøvel

    Thanks to Edy Poppy and Katrin Meynarth at Dalkey Archive.
    53 min
  • 19: Samuel Fisher

    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

    As we mention at the beginning, there were some technical issues with the sound on one of the microphones in this episode - apologies, but it should sound ok if you're listening on earphones/headphones.

    You can follow Sam on Twitter: @fishersamuk

    To find out more about the podcast, follow us on twitter @UnsoundMethods or go to unsoundmethods.co.uk

    54 min
  • 18: Marc Nash

    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 Marc @21stCScribe on Twitter

    To find out more about the podcast, follow us on twitter @UnsoundMethods or go to unsoundmethods.co.uk

    45 min
  • 17: Eimear McBride

    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 process, experimental fiction and the role of the novel in modern life.

    Thanks again to Eimear for her generosity with her time.

    To find out more about the podcast, follow us on twitter @UnsoundMethods or go to unsoundmethods.co.uk

    47 min

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A literary fiction podcast hosted by authors Jaimie Batchan and Lochlan Bloom.