The Brit Lit Podcast

78: Murmuration, with Blake Auden

Our guest on episode 78 is poet Blake Auden, who has almost 300,000 Instagram followers and is known for speaking openly about mental health. He also has four collections of poems out in the world, and the most recent is , which came out in October..…

78: The Idea Of You, with Robinne Lee

My guest in this special bonus episode is Robinne Lee, the author of my favourite read of 2021, . She's not British, but I loved this book so much that I wanted to bring you this interview anyway! Robinne and I talked about her origin story as a...

77: The Party Crasher, with Sophie Kinsella

I’m so excited to bring you an interview with none other than Sophie Kinsella, who’s known to many as the queen of British chick lit and the author of the mega-bestselling Shopaholic series.  We talked about her new book The Party Crasher,...

76: Careless, with Kirsty Capes

This month’s guest is Kirsty Capes, author of the novel Careless. We talked about why she wanted to write about female friendship, what it was like to study with Bernadine Evaristo, why it's especially important for kids in the foster care...

75: The Roxy Letters, with Mary Pauline Lowry

This month’s guest is Mary Pauline Lowry, who wrote . Mary is married to a Brit, and she had lots of fascinating insights about the cultural differences between the countries, and I loved talking to her back about Bridget Jones and Jane...

74: The Summer Job, with Lizzy Dent

Our guest on episode 74 of the Brit Lit Podcast, is Lizzy Dent, who wrote , and who’s also a YA author -- as Rebecca Denton, she wrote , among other books. She and I talked about her favourite food writing, what it’s like to have a novel come out...

73: Star-Crossed, with Minnie Darke

Our guest on episode 73 of the Brit Lit Podcast is Danielle Wood who, as Minnie Darke, wrote one of Claire's very favourite books of recent years, called Star Crossed. Among other things, she discussed what makes One Day by David Nicholls such an...

72: Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour, with Sareeta Domingo

Our guest today is Sareeta Domingo, who’s the author of both adult and young adult fiction, and most recently the editor of the collection called Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour. She talks about romantic reads she loves,...

71: Exciting Times, with Naoise Dolan

Today, we hear from Naoise Dolan, who’s an Irish author and the writer of the Women’s Prize longlisted novel Exciting Times. She and I talked about cultural and literary differences between the UK, the US, and Ireland, what we both think about the...

The Most Fun Job, with Laurie Gillman of East City Bookshop

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! I work part-time in a lovely bookshop on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, and in this bonus episode, I interview my boss, Laurie Gillman, who founded the shop five years ago, to talk about what goes into starting and...