Patrick Ryan
Patrick Ryan is the author of Send Me, Saints of Augustine, In Mike We Trust and Gemini Bites. His work has been included in The Best American Short Stories 2006, Tin House, The Yale Review and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.
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In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: David McConnell
David McConnell & Patrick Ryan
David McConnell – author of the novels The Silver Hearted and The Firebrat, as well...
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Grand Mal
Patrick Ryan
‘Except for what I’ve recounted here, the two weeks leading up to the seizure have never returned to my memory. Nor have most of the two weeks following my release from the hospital.’
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: Catherine Chung
Catherine Chung & Patrick Ryan
Photo by Ayano Hisa. Catherine Chung was one of Granta’s New Voices in 2010. Her...
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: Karen Russell
Karen Russell & Patrick Ryan
‘I think it’s impossible to draw a hard and fast line between reality and fantasy.’
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Not Easy to Tell
Patrick Ryan
Photo by Katerha. My dad worked a lot of jobs. As a young man, in...
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan
Photo by Robert Bessoir. Julie Otsuka’s tour de force second novel, The Buddha in the...
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Madison, Mon Amour
Patrick Ryan
I left the office just in time to get to Penn Station, find my track...
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The End of the Discussion
Patrick Ryan
She became a widow in 1965, the year I was born. The great uncle I...
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Sudden Moderator
Patrick Ryan
This week in the Granta blog, we hear from assistant editor Patrick Ryan as he...
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
Never Raise Your Hand
Patrick Ryan
On the Granta blog this week – our occasional series, ‘What I’m Reading’. Between books,...
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Utterly Dylan
Patrick Ryan
In 1976, when I was eleven, the family records I had access to consisted of...
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
On holiday with James Lord
Patrick Ryan
One summer in the late nineties I was invited by the writers Edmund White and...
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
Athena Sees Good Things for You
Patrick Ryan
I was running out of money and looking for work. In Union Square I bumped...
