Ted Hodgkinson

Ted Hodgkinson is the previous online editor at Granta. He was a judge for the 2012 Costa Book Awards’ poetry prize, announced earlier this year. He managed the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Tuscany, the affiliated Gregor Von Rezzori Literary Prize and still serves as an advisor. His stories have appeared in Notes from the Underground and The Mays and his criticism in the Times Literary Supplement. He has an MA in English from Oxford and an MFA from Columbia.

Ted Hodgkinson on Granta.com

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Interview: A. Igoni Barrett

A. Igoni Barrett & Ted Hodgkinson

A.Ignoi Barrett’s debut collection Love is Power, Or Something Like That, has been published to...

Podcasts|The Online Edition

Podcast: George Saunders

Ted Hodgkinson & George Saunders

‘One of the finest, funniest writers of his generation, he writes stories that pulse with outsized heart, crackle with the ad-speak and eek out the human story from the lives of theme-park workers and the subjects of strange drug tests that enhance libido and eloquence.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Steven Hall: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 75

Steven Hall & Ted Hodgkinson

Photo by Jerry Bauer. Continuing our series of podcasts on the Best of Young British...

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Nadifa Mohamed: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 71

Ted Hodgkinson & Nadifa Mohamed

Photo by John Foley Opale. Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young...

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Podcast Ep. 68: Helen Oyeyemi

Ted Hodgkinson & Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi speaks to Ted Hodgkinson about the joys of writing from a male perspective, magic in her work, and how as a girl she wrote alternate endings to the classics.

Podcasts|The Online Edition

Podcast: David Szalay

Ted Hodgkinson & David Szalay

Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, here we bring...

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Interview: Chloe Aridjis

Chloe Aridjis & Ted Hodgkinson

Chloe Aridjis was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico...

Fiction|The Online Edition

Evie Wyld: The Granta Podcast, Ep.59

Ted Hodgkinson & Evie Wyld

Continuing a series of podcasts on our Best of Young British Novelists 4 , today...

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Interview: Turkish Granta

Ted Hodgkinson

This coming week will see the launch of the first issue of Turkish Granta, themed...

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Interview: Al Alvarez

Al Alvarez & Ted Hodgkinson

Al Alvarez is a critic, essayist and poet whose many books include his study of...

Fiction|The Online Edition

James Lasdun: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 56

Ted Hodgkinson & James Lasdun

The writer and critic James Lasdun is the author of several collections of stories, including...

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Interview: Dan Rhodes

Dan Rhodes & Ted Hodgkinson

Selected in 2003 as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, Dan Rhodes is...

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Interview: Granta Norway

Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson

To mark the launch of Granta Norway 1: Kollaps (Collapse), Ted Hodgkinson spoke to Norwegian editor Trude...

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Podcast: Colin Robinson

Colin Robinson & Ted Hodgkinson

Colin Robinson reads from his memoir ‘Paddleball’ in Granta 122: Betrayal and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how an old brotherly friction re-emerged during a game in New York, and how gym culture has changed the way we view our bodies.

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Podcast: Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Here Deborah Levy spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why as she wants to resist anything resembling a comfort zone and why writing fiction is about ‘finding reasons to live’.’

Art & Photography|The Online Edition

Podcast: Brad Feuerhelm

Brad Feuerhelm & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Brad spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the stories that lie behind his images from the issue and how his work is informed by his love of horror movies.’

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Podcast: Jeet Thayil

Ted Hodgkinson & Jeet Thayil

‘His debut novel, Narcopolis – was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize – tells of a group of outsiders caught up in an underworld of opiates, sex and violence in Bombay. Part biography of that city, the novel also takes a turn into China, which is another important chapter in the story of how opium shaped the landscape and the individual lives shrouded in its smoke.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Zadie Smith in Conversation

Ted Hodgkinson & Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith on writing tighter sentences, the ‘essential hubris’ of criticism and why novelists prefer writing in their pyjamas.

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Granta Audio: Claire Vaye Watkins

Claire Vaye Watkins & Ted Hodgkinson

‘These are stories that capture sudden, unexpected intimacies and unearth alternate family mythologies in seemingly innocuous objects.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Granta Audio: Peter Stamm

Ted Hodgkinson & Peter Stamm

Photo by Gaby Gerster. Peter Stamm is the author of several novels, most recently Seven...

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Interview: Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner & Ted Hodgkinson

‘I have no memory of intending to write a novel.’

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Podcast: Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones & Ted Hodgkinson

‘He spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why he doesn’t want to be defined as a Welsh writer, the pleasures and challenges of writing short stories and novellas and writing about the growing pains of adolescence.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Podcast: Andrés Neuman

Andrés Neuman & Ted Hodgkinson

‘During the four hours they spent alone three times a week, Hans and Sophie alternated between books and bed, bed and books, exploring one another in words and reading one another’s bodies.’

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Podcast: Jon McGregor

Jon McGregor & Ted Hodgkinson

‘He also discusses his enduring fascination with Lincolnshire and his new short story collection, This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You.’

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Interview: Nick Dybek

Nick Dybek & Ted Hodgkinson

Certainly Cal is trying to figure out his own ‘larger destiny’ and the role of his father’s work in it. I think it becomes quickly clear to him that his character doesn’t suit the place and time into which he was born. At the same time, the extreme sacrifices members of this community make for their livelihood drive them to romanticise their work. Even though Cal doubts his own suitability for fishing, he is as susceptible to this pressure to aggrandize it as anyone else (his fondness for adventure stories might even make him more susceptible). This tradition of describing daily life in romantic terms such as ‘destiny’ continues to influence and afflict Cal, even once he’s old enough to reject it.

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Podcast: Highlights of 2011

Ted Hodgkinson

‘After the readings stay tuned for some outtakes and extras, including an extract from a Liars League performance of New Voice Bilal Tanweer’s story 'After That We Are Ignorant', Lavinia Greenlaw reads her online poem 'Saturday Night' and Don DeLillo has an encounter with an unruly mircophone.’

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Interview: Peter Orner

Ted Hodgkinson & Peter Orner

From his first story collection, Esther Stories, on to his most recent novel, Love Shame...

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Granta Audio: Robert Coover

Robert Coover & Ted Hodgkinson

His wife comes in, baring, with a wink, her incisors, and offers him a Bloody Mary.

Fiction|The Online Edition

Granta Audio: Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw & Ted Hodgkinson

The Granta Fornightly Podcast: This week Lavinia Greenlaw reads several poems from her latest collection,...

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Interview: Samantha Smith

Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson

Samantha Smith’s policeman father was involved in the rescue effort immediately after the planes struck...

Interviews|The Online Edition

Interview: Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid & Ted Hodgkinson

Anthony Shadid is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Over his fifteeen year...

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Interview: Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru & Ted Hodgkinson

‘It was interesting to me how readily UFOs can be mapped onto a spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky and so on.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Stacks

Friedrich Dürrenmatt & Ted Hodgkinson

There are few things worse than being rebuked by the very books you have promised...

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

A Plausible Portrait

Ted Hodgkinson

‘My friends say I am secretive and devious,’ he wrote in the introduction to Picasso and Dora. ‘They’re right.’