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Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers — 94 episodes
Louisa Bello’s sheer determination to get published and being inspired by a friend
Deepa Anappara describes the importance of Moby Dick to her novel…and a Rippling Points Preview
Deepa Anappara on great storytelling and complex explorations of grief
Ashton Politanoff tells us how to write tense scenes and write a novel set in the world of tennis
Alice Hattrick on creatively writing about history and embroidery and mother daughter relationships
Ask the Host - Liam on origins of the podcast, literary salons, and a summer books preview
Nicholas Royle on writing about his love for second hand books and bookshops (archive re-release)
Stu Hennigan on writing in vernacular and sympathetic truthful portrayals of the north
Amber Medland on overcoming writers block and writing with George Saunders
Polly Barton on writing about knotty linguistic concepts and loving language (Archive Re-Release)
Camille Bordas on finding detail in small objects and writing in different languages
Camille Bordas on making difficult topics funny and crafting sharp dialogue
Bonus! Lucy Caldwell on annotated Hamlet and Easter Eggs
Lucy Caldwell on writing transcendent psychic moments and finding meaning in life
Bonus! Why a letter knife told Leon Craig everything she needed to know about her characters’ desires
Leon Craig on misunderstanding ghosts and getting what we want
Ana Schnabl on using childhood locations and memories in stories about unpleasant people
Eva Meijer live in Leeds and panoramic crisis fiction based on personal experience
Bonus - Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali on their favourite books and writing beyond the surface
Christmas and NY special - exciting talents, Madeleine and Farah, discussing healing and books that inspired their craft
Editor Rali Chorbadzyiyska talking about how writers can manage rejections and marketing
Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his grandparents to build his characters and worlds
Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns
Bonus! Joanna Pocock on why your phone and notebook might be all you need to write
LIVE! Agnes Lidbeck and how to write about major adjustments and characters that frustrate us
Joanna Pocock on writing about kindness and perspective on the American Road
Ask the Host! Liam on Latest Reads, Favourite Bookshop, and Reality TV
BONUS! Gurnaik Johal on Objects, Perfect Art and Buster Keaton
Gurnaik Johal on Rivers, Family and Pub Chats
Yan Ge Part 2 on Vulnerabilities, Younger Selves, Parents
Yan Ge Part 1 on Happiness, Elsewhere, and Striving
Kimberly Campanello - Bonus Content with memory, flags and music
Kimberly Campanello on Autofiction, the Midwest, and Notebooks
Uttama Kirit Patel on Letters, Motherhood, and Mother-in-Laws
Ask the Bookshop- Bonus! On Leeds, Community and Safe Spaces
Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering
Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer Part 2 - On Clowns, Mothers and Part Time Jobs
Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer - Part 1 - on Call Centres, Intimacy and Toilet Humour
Ask the Host! Liam on Dream Guests, New Books, and Talking to Animals
Elaine Garvey on 2002, Wadrobe Departments, and Women Walking
Bonus Content - Benjamin Markovits on Subtexts, Michael Jordan, and family favourites!
Benjamin Markovits on Basketball, Family, and Illness
Bonus Content with Marni Appleton - Taylor Swift, and Getting Up Early
Marni Appleton on Spotlights, Mirrors and the Art of the Title
Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Vincenzo Latronico - Berlin, Italian novels, and on being translated into English
Vincenzo Latronico on Perfection, Authenticity, and Things
Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Pola Oloixarac - Archives, Horoscopes, and Twisted Desire
Pola Oloixarac and Unreliability, Energies, and Dopamine
Iris Mwanza - Zambia, Human Rights, and Elections
Friða Ísberg and THE MARK
Naomi Wood and THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS
Sam Sax and YR DEAD
Jennifer Lucy Allan and CLAY: A HUMAN HISTORY
Bruce Omar Yates and The Muslim Cowboy
Claire Carroll and The Unreliable Nature Writer
Marchelle Farrell and By the River
Marianne Brooker and Intervals
Dawn Garisch and Breaking Milk
Rachel Mann and Eleanor Among the Saints
Jo Scott-Coe on the Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
Charlotte Eichler and Swimming Between Islands
Baron Wormser on Silence, Solitude and Shakespeare
Leslie Smolan and the Life and Work of Rodney Smith
Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Azúcar
James Clarke and Sanderson’s Isle
Bloomsday special with Helen Palmer!
Duncan Wiese and TITYRUS: A PASTORAL
Soraya Palmer and The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
Catalan Literature in Translation Special!
Seraphina Madsen and Aurora
Caitlin Stobie and THIN SLICES
Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers - Salt Crystals
Nicholas Royle and White Spines:
Caroline Clark and Own Sweet Time
Sarah Schofield and Safely Gathered In
Richard Price - the Owner of the Sea
Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford on THIRSTY SEA
Emilio Fraia and Zoë Perry on Sevastopol
Charlie Baylis and Santa Lucía
Jo Scott-Coe on MASS
Jessie Greengrass on the High House
Jeff Chon and Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun
Khalisa Rae and Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat
Polly Barton and Fifty Sounds
Jacqueline Bishop on Jamaican Women Writers
Samatar Elmi and A Portrait of Colossus
Katherine Lockton on Paper Doll - Flipped Eye Anniversary Part 1
How to Get in Touch with the Rippling Pages Podcast
Neil Griffiths on TRAUMA: Writing About Art and Mental Health
Olja Knežević and Catherine the Great and the Small
Jen Calleja on Time and Goblins
Katharina Volckmer and The Appointment
Gaia Holmes and 'RESIST'
Thomas Chadwick and 'Above the Fat'