Little Atoms

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels  The Queen of the Night  and  Edinburgh . He is a contributing editor at the  New Republic , an editor at large at  Virginia Quarterly Review,  and a critic at large at the  Los Angeles Times . His work has appeared in  The Best American Essays 2016 ,  The New York Times Magazine ,  Slate ,  Guernica , and  Tin House , among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. His latest book is the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel .

Adam Weymouth's work has been published by a wide variety of outlets including the Guardian, the Atlantic and the New Internationalist. His interest in the relationship between humans and the world around them has led him to write on issues of climate change and environmentalism, and most recently, to the Yukon river and the stories of the communities living on its banks. He lives on a 100-year-old Dutch barge on the River Lea in London. His first book, Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018.

Thea Lim’s novel  An Ocean of Minutes  is out now from Quercus/Hachette in the UK, Viking/Penguin Random House in Canada, and Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster in the US. Her writing has been published by  the Paris Review, the Guardian, Salon, the National Post, LitHub, Electric Literature, the Millions, the Southampton Review, GRIST  and others. She has received multiple awards and fellowships for her work, including artists’ grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her novella  The Same Woman  was released by Invisible Publishing in 2007. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston and she previously served as nonfiction editor at  Gulf Coast . She grew up in Singapore and lives in Toronto, where she is a professor of creative writing.

To see in the New Year, here's a repeat of our Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh from August. Ottessa Moshfegh   is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book,  McGlue , a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection  Homesick for Another World . Her stories have been published in  The Paris Review ,  The New Yorker , and  Granta , and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Eileen , her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction;  My Year of Rest and Relaxation,  her second novel, was a  New York Times  bestseller.

For Christmas Day, here's a repeat of our interview from June 2018 with Adam Kay. Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film, including  Mitchell & Webb  and  Very British Problems . He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book  This Is Going To Hurt.