At the beginning of 2013, we’re publishing the phenominal Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. This video gives you an idea why we’re so excited so far in advance…

Vikram on being sixty: ‘I’m just going to be happy to be buffeted, by whatever comes along, and then seize some things and try to work on them. But, we live for such a ridiculously short time in this life, even those of us who are fortunate to have health and all that sort of stuff…to not add being with people one loves and spending time with them – you know my parents now are eighty – so to spend time with them, and my nieces, and myself and, I hope, with someone who I can make a life with…this is as important to me as literary inspiration or [learning] Welsh or pottery.’

Have a listen while its up on the site!

Hamish Hamilton novelist and poet Joe Dunthorne reminisces about his misspent gap year selling door to door in Australia in the first of a series of delightful and adventurous short documentaries called Short Cuts on BBC Radio 4. Catch it on the iPlayer

A great interview with Jonathan Safran Foer in the Wall Street Journal with Nicolas Rapold;

“One of the strange things about that day is, whether you were an hour out of the city or in Queens as I was, which is really 10 minutes out of the city, or in Australia, there’s a certain shared experience,” said Mr. Foer, who was in Jackson Heights at the time. “There’s a way in which it’s a really global event in large part because of how witnessed it was. It was actually the most witnessed event in human history.”