Neil Denny of LittleAtoms sits down with the writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Raoul Martinez to talk about his new book, Creating Freedom
Little Atoms
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“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking”
“the Angelus bell ringing out over its villages and townlands over the fields and hills and bogs in between, six chimes of three across a minute and a half, a summons struck on the lip of the void”
‘Excellence is always rare and often unexpected: we don’t necessarily expect masterpieces even from the great. Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is exceptional indeed: an extraordinary novel by a writer not yet famous but surely destined to be acclaimed…’
Ian Sansom
The Guardian
The Book of Strange New Things
“A powerful and, one suspects, personal meditation on the limitations of the flesh, and the capacity of either love or faith to endure extreme pressure”
Stephanie Merritt
Guardian
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2014 tour of North America.
Listen to an extract from The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, read by Josh Cohen.
‘A timely memoir of mental illness reads as a highly personal and creative response to crisis’
Lettie Kennedy
The Guardian
“To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business”
Cameron Bloom & Bradley Trevor Greive
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Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Grieve
Penguin the Magpie
Cameron Bloom & Bradley Trevor Greive
Penguin Bloom: how a scruffy magpie saved a family
Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Grieve
The Guardian
“I’ve only ever been a hair away from being utterly alone in the world”
Amy Liptrot on writing her way home
“Black Mass is a revealing account of the use and misuse of two particularly notorious informers by the Boston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the two Boston Globe reporters who broke the story, it is at once a uniquely Boston tale about Italian-Irish rivalries in organized crime, law enforcement and politics, and a parable of what happens when law enforcement officers get too close to their informer”
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
The New York Times
Carol Birch reads from Orphans of the Carnival
Sheila Kohler reads from Once We Were Sisters
“Sheila Kohler’s sister died in devastating circumstances and it has haunted her work ever since. After all, she can keep her safe on the page”
Sheila Kohler
The Pool