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.
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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...
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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.’
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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In Conversation | The Online Edition
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’.’
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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.’
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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.
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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.’
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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.’
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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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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Granta Audio: Robert Coover
Robert Coover & Ted Hodgkinson
His wife comes in, baring, with a wink, her incisors, and offers him a Bloody Mary.
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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...
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Interview: Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid & Ted Hodgkinson
Anthony Shadid is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Over his fifteeen year...
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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.’
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Fiction | The Online Edition
Stacks
Friedrich Dürrenmatt & Ted Hodgkinson
There are few things worse than being rebuked by the very books you have promised...
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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.’
