Max Porter and Wyl Menmuir

Max Porter shook up the literary world when his debut novel Grief is the Thing With Feathers was published in 2015, and his subsequent books Lanny and The Death of Franis Bacon, have continued to challenge the conventional expectations of what a novel can be. 

Wyl Menmuir's debut novel was the Booker Longlisted The Many and his follow-up, this year's Fox Fires, was lauded as a worthy successor when it was published in April 2021. Join the two of them as they discuss their work and interrogate one another on what it is that makes them write, and why.