Unsound Methods
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
66: Sarah Bernstein
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we caught up with Canadian writer Sarah Bernstein (featuring occasional contributions from her then newborn child). Sarah is the autho...
65: Ron Butlin
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we are speaking with international prize-winning novelist and former Edinburgh Makar / Poet Laureate (2008-2014), Ron Butlin. In 2009 he w...
64: Amina Cain
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month's episode features our chat with novelist and short story writer Amina Cain, the author of the novel Indelicacy, a New York Times Editors’...
63: Christopher Priest
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s episode is our chat with the late Christopher Priest, who sadly passed away on 2nd February 2024. In what will have been one of his l...
62: Bill Drummond
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we return to our first in-person recording for way too long, as we sat down with writer, musician and all-round cultural agitator Bill Drum...
61: Iman Mersal
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we are speaking to the Egyptian poet and author Iman Mersal. We talk about the genesis of ideas, structure and form when writing in Arabic...
60: Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 60 with Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams This month, we are speaking to not one but two authors as we discuss collaborative writing wit...
59: David Shields
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're opening 2024 with our chat with David Shields: David is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-five books, including Reality Hunger (w...
58: Johanna Hedva
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're joined by Johanna Hedva, a Korean American writer, artist, and musician who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, an...
57: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For episode 57 we caught up with the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, author of 8 novels, 3 collections of short stories, numerous plays and pieces ...
56: Daisy Hildyard
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For episode 56 we're joined by Daisy Hildyard, the author of two novels – Emergency (2022) and Hunters in the Snow (2013) – and one work of nonfic...
55: Ewan Fernie & Simon Palfrey
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month marks the fifth anniversary of Unsound Methods - thank you to everyone who's joined us along the way, and hello to any new arrivals... In ...
54: Jenny Landreth
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a slight shift from our literary fiction focus, we caught up with writer and script editor Jenny Landreth - one of the driving forces behind the br...
53: Etgar Keret
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode with chatted with Etgar Keret, writer of short stories, comics, a children's book and a memoir. Etgar's books have been published in f...
52: Daniel Davis Wood
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in this episode is Australian writer Daniel Davis Wood, author of Blood and Bone (2014) which won the Viva La Novella Prize and At the Edge ...
51: Claudia Durastanti
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 51 with Claudia Durastanti. This month we speak to writer and translator Claudia Durastanti. We cover the importance of travel and geograph...
50: Miguel Cullen
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hitting the half century, we speak to British-Argentine poet and journalist Miguel Cullen, author of collections including Wave Caps (2014), Paranoid ...
49: Sara Baume
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month we speak to writer and artist Sara Baume. Sara is the author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015), A Line Made by Walking (2017), the non-f...
48: Richard Beard
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we speak to writer Richard Beard. Richard’s six novels include Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones and Damascus, which was a New York Times N...
47: Sam Byers
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode we had a chat with novelist Sam Byers, author of Idiopathy (2013), Perfidious Albion (2018) and last year's Come Join Our Diseas...
46: Keith Ridgway
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our first guest of 2022 is the novelist Keith Ridgway, author of, among other works, 'the Long Falling' (1998), 'the Parts' (2003), 'Animals' (2006), ...
45: Jenn Ashworth
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this month is Jenn Ashworth, author of A Kind of Intimacy (2009), Cold Light (2011), The Friday Gospels (2013), Fell (2017) and the non-fict...
44: Lucie Elven
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month we are joined by Lucie Elven, short-story writer and author of the Weak Spot, the debut novel published earlier this year by Prototype in t...
43: Rebecca Watson
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we roll into autumn, we're joined by Rebecca Watson, novelist and arts writer. Rebecca's debut novel, Little Scratch, grew from a short story that ...
42: Natasha Brown
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our August '21 episode we're joined by Natasha Brown, the author of Assembly, which is published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and will be released...
41: Sophie Mackintosh
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode we're joined by the novelist Sophie Mackintosh, who is the author of 'the Water Cure' (2018) and 'Blue Ticket' (2020). Topics...
40: David Goldblatt
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“If Adorno was alive today, he’d be writing about football. I don’t think he’d like it… but he’d be writing about it. And Gramsci for sure...
39: DBC Pierre
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we speak with DBC Pierre, author of Vernon God Little (for which he won the Booker Prize in 2003), Ludmila's Broken English (2006), Li...
38: Jon McGregor
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode, we speak to Jon McGregor, whose latest novel Lean, Fall, Stand is published by Fourth Estate on 29th April. Jon joined us in...
37: Thomas Bernhard mit Douglas Robertson
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 37 we're joined by Douglas Robertson to celebrate the publication of his brand new translation of Thomas Bernhard's Die Billigesser (the Ch...
36: Jaimie Batchan - Siphonophore
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Something a little different for the first pod of 2021: Lochlan and Jaimie get together (remotely) and have a couple of drinks to celebrate the launch...
35: John Englehardt
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode, we caught up with John Englehardt, author of 'Bloomland' (2019, Dzanc Books). John has also written for Vol.1 Brooklyn, Sycam...
34: David Keenan
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode we took a wild ride with David Keenan. David was born in Glasgow and grew up in Airdrie, in the west of Scotland, in the late-...
33: Gabriel Josipovici
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode we speak to Gabriel Josipovici. Gabriel's first novel was published in 1968 and his writing career spans over twenty works of ...
32: Anakana Schofield
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“What you push against is as important as what you reach towards” On this month's episode we speak to Irish-Canadian author Anakana Schofield, au...
31: Lockdown Reading and Writing
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Something a little different this month as Lochlan and Jaimie pause to review how the COVID-19 lockdown has impacted their reading and writing, and to...
30: Jen Calleja
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 30, we speak to writer, translator and musician, Jen Calleja, author of the short story collection 'I'm Afraid that's All We've Got Time Fo...
29: Hamid Ismailov
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 29, we speak to writer and broadcaster Hamid Ismailov. Hamid joined us pre-Covid-19-lockdown, on his way to the Faversham Literature Festiv...
28: Jonathan Simons / The Analog Sea
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a little different to our usual output as we speak to Jonathan Simons: publisher, writer, editor, musician, occasional translator, and...
27: Caleb Klaces
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 27 we speak to Caleb Klaces, poet, academic and author of 'Fatherhood' (2019, Prototype). Caleb is also the author of 'Bottled Air' (2013),...
26: Vesna Main
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 26, we speak to Vesna Main, author of Good Day? (Salt, 2019) which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year. Vesna has previously...
25: Tony White
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 25, we speak to Tony White, author of ‘The Fountain in the Forest’ (Faber, 2018) as well as ‘Road Rage’, ‘Satan Satan Satan’, ‘...
24: Yara Rodrigues Fowler
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 24, we speak to Yara Rodrigues Fowler, the author of Stubborn Archivist (Fleet, 2019). We spoke to Yara about publisher demands to make he...
23: Mazin Saleem
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 23 we speak to Mazin Saleem, the author of 'the Prick', published as part of Open Pen's series of novelettes. We speak to Mazin about di...
22: Shiromi Pinto
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 22, we speak to Shiromi Pinto, the author of 'Plastic Emotions' (2019, Influx Press) and 'Trussed' (2006, Serpent's Tail). You can order Pl...
21: Mathias Énard
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 21 we sit down with Mathias Énard, winner of the Prix Goncourt, to speak to him about his process, the line between history and fiction an...
20: Edy Poppy
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This month we speak to Norwegian author and artist Edy Poppy. Edy's debut novel Anatomi. Monotoni. won the Gylendal Prize in 2005 and was recently pu...
19: Samuel Fisher
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we speak to novelist, bookseller and publisher Samuel Fisher. Sam's debut 'the Chameleon' was published by Salt in 2018. You can...
18: Marc Nash
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 18, we speak to Marc Nash, most recently author of 'Three Dreams in the Key of G', published by Dead Ink in 2018. Marc joined us in Londo...
17: Eimear McBride
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome all to the first Unsound Methods of 2019! This month, we are delighted to be joined for a second time by Eimear McBride. In episode 12 we spok...
16: Christmas Special 2018
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
No guest this month (don't worry, more fantastic writers will be appearing here starting again in January). In this Xmas '18 special edition, Lochlan ...
15: Tom Lee
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This month we speak to Tom Lee award-winning short fiction writer and author of The Alarming Palsy of James Orr. We talk about Tom's approach to wri...
14: Lars Iyer
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode we speak to Lars Iyer, weaver of fiction in blog-form, novelist and erstwhile philosopher. Among many other things we talked...
13: Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second series of Unsound Methods. In this episode we speak to Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, the author of Call Me Zebra from Alma Books...
12: (Event) Beyond Words: Noémi Lefebvre and Eimear McBride
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is the audio recording of the event at the Institut Francais that followed our chat with Noémi Lefebvre and Eimear McBride. The Institut Franc...
12: Beyond Words: Noémi Lefebvre & Eimear McBride
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded at the Beyond Words Festival at the Institut Francais on Thursday 17th May 2018. We sat down with Noémi Lefebvre, the autho...
11: Olga Tokarczuk & Jennifer Croft
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft, fresh from winning the International @ManBookerPrize for the superb 'Flights', out now on @Fitzcarraldo...
10: Joanna Kavenna
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we speak to novelist and essayist, Joanna Kavenna. We talk about beginnings, finding a voice in fiction and taking a Wittgens...
9: Patrick Langley
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to Patrick Langley, author of Arkady from Fitzcarraldo Editions. With a background in art criticism and radio production, Paddy t...
8: Will Eaves
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to novelist, poet and teacher, Will Eaves. We discuss his approach to structuring a novel, turning notes into a finished work ...
7: Daniel Levin Becker
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Something slightly different this week, as we speak to Daniel Levin Becker. Daniel doesn't consider himself primarily a fiction writer, but as a membe...
6: Alex Pheby
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to Alex Pheby about having different editing and writing persona, blending fiction with historical research and whether it's ration...
5: Esther Kinsky
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to Esther Kinsky, recent winner of the Leipziger Buchmesse Prize and author of River from Fitzcarraldo Editions. We talk about th...
4: Michael Stewart
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to Michael Stewart. Michael is the author of the novels 'King Crow' and 'Cafe Assassin' (both with Bluemoose Books - https://bluemo...
3: Iosi Havilio
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to Argentine author Iosi Havilio. We speak about his upbringing in Paris and Buenos Aires, the links between music and literature...
2: Megan Dunn
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to Megan Dunn, author of Tinderbox (Galley Beggar, 2017). We cover the act of balancing fiction and non-fiction, wrestling with t...
1: Neil Griffiths
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of Unsound Methods. In this episode we speak to Neil Griffiths, author of Betrayal in Naples, Saving Caravaggio and As A ...