Granta Magazine Interview

From his first story collection, Esther Stories, on to his most recent novel, Love Shame and Love, Peter Orner has established himself as one of the most distinctive American voices of his generation. His work has appeared in Granta 111: Going Back and in the online edition, with ‘At The Kitchen Table’. He spoke to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about memory, learning to love your characters, the importance of animals in fiction and Chicagoland. Read the full interview here.

BOMB Magazine Interview

In the first installment in BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series, Peter Orner reads his short story “Herb and Rosalie Swanson at the Cocoanut Grove,” published in BOMB 103’s literary supplement, First Proof. Listen to the full interview here.