John Lanchester and Sam Kinchin-Smith: Reality and Other Stories

John Lanchester, novelist, memoirist, essayist and contributing editor to the LRB, discusses his chilling collection of short fiction, Reality and Other Stories (Faber), which explores the unsettling nature of modern life through demonic mobile phones, haunted self-sticks, and other technology gone horribly wrong.

Lanchester is in conversation with the LRB’s head of special projects Sam Kinchin-Smith.

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