Last week I had the huge pleasure of chatting with Joe Praska and Kalid Hussein on their brilliant Frankenstein's Podcast. I'm a huge Ray Harryhausen fan, and we talked about one of my favourite Harryhausen movies: Clash of the Titans (the 1981 original, not the 2010 remake abomination). If you've not come across Frankenstein's Podcast yet, … [Read more...]
David Mitchell event at WordFactory
I'm so excited to be interviewing the amazing David Mitchell at a special WordFactory salon on Weds 12 July 2017. David is the author of seven novels, including Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Slade House. He has also c0-translated into English the extraordinary autism memoirs of Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, … [Read more...]
KJ Orr interview – Light Box
KJ Orr's debut short story collection - Light Box - has recently come out, and it's brilliant, so I wanted to ask her about it. Here's the interview. AM: Why did you call the collection Light Box? KJO: It made sense for a number of reasons, and my hope is that there is pleasure in coming across some of those while reading, so I won’t point … [Read more...]
Interview with The Short Story
I just did an interview with The Short Story website about inspiration, influences, teaching creative writing, the writing life, and the moment I knew I wanted to be a writer: http://www.theshortstory.co.uk/the-short-story-interview-adam-marek/ … [Read more...]