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Little Atoms 932 - Ken Hollings' The Trash Project
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Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. He is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome To Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor, Frieze, Noon and Satori, and in numerous anthologies and collections, as well as in features and series for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4FM. He teaches at The Royal College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art and Design. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms, the first of 2025, he talks to Neil Denny about The Trash Project, a trilogy of books on trash culture structured around Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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