In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Alan Hollinghurst, author of seven novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty and Our Evenings, which was published in 2024.
We discuss his new novel, writing from the outsider’s perspective and cataloguing the chapters of queer life from the mid-century to now.
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Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2025.
Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta.
