From the UEA Literary Festival in Spring 2013, the internationally bestselling author Lee Child discusses his Jack Reacher novels with UEA Professor of Creative Writing Henry Sutton.
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“One door closes, another door shuts”: some reflections on failure
What is it that draws us to failing? In partnership with Ashoka University and the India International Centre, the 5th UEA symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions specific to failing; why, and how, it awakens our desire; and why it is taboo in a way quite different from […]
Elizabeth Strout interviewed by Peggy Hughes
From the UEA Literary Festival in Autumn 2019, Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth Stout discusses Olive Again and her late-blooming writing career with Peggy Hughes of the National Centre for Writing.
Margaret Atwood interviewed by Andrew Cowan
Recorded at the conclusion of her MaddAddam trilogy and the start of her Visiting Professorship at UEA, world-renowned author Margaret Atwood is here in conversation with the novelist and UEA Professor of Creative Writing, Andrew Cowan
Max Porter interviewed by Philip Langeskov
Recorded for the UEA Literary Festival in March 2019, UEA’s Philip Langeskov in conversation with Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers and the Booker-longlisted Lanny.
The Plot Against Drama: Dramaturgy In The Age Of Netflix
In this very personal lecture, delivered in January 2020, leading playwright and UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters asks what exactly is happening to drama in a world of on-demand storytelling. In an age of stories as franchises, narratives without limit and globalised reach, what happens to tragedy or dramatic intensity? Does too much drama defeat […]
George Saunders interviewed by Philip Langeskov
Recorded for the UEA Literary Festival in spring 2017, the acclaimed novelist, essayist and short story writer George Saunders is here in conversation with Philip Langeskov about his Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln In The Bardo.
Christie Watson interviewed by Naomi Wood
As UEA alumna Christie Watson returns to frontline nursing during the Covid-19 crisis, we thought we’d applaud and celebrate her by sharing this recording of her 2018 Literary Festival interview with fellow alumna Naomi Wood, here discussing Christie’s bestselling memoir, The Language of Kindness.
Marlon James interviewed by Tom Benn
Recorded for the Spring 2019 series of the UEA Literary Festival, Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James in conversation with UEA Lecturer in Crime Writing, the novelist Tom Benn. Introduced by Philip Langeskov.
The Butchers
The opening to The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan, published by Atlantic Books on 26th March 2020. Prologue New York, January 2018 Even now, twenty-two years since he took the photograph, he still cannot quite believe the lack of blood. The cold store isn’t a big room, maybe twenty by twenty at a push, the wall […]