Hattie Crisell

London

Contributing Editor at Grazia Magazine (UK)

My book, In Writing, will be published by Granta in November 2024. Contributing editor of @GraziaUK. She/her. Agent: @immmy. Writing about writing on Substack:

Articles

Life Without Milestones: Why It's Time To Embrace Off-Piste Lives

1 month ago | graziadaily.co.uk | Hattie Crisell

Career, house, marriage, kids... we’re conditioned to think our lives must tick off particular milestones. But often there’s fulfilment in the road less travelledCarrie Bradshaw hit the nail on the head in a 2003 episode of _Sex And The City_when she recounted the many times she had celebrated the life choices of a particular friend – via an engagement party, a wedding and three baby showers.
We Put Bella Freud On The Couch To Be Interviewed By Trinny Woodall – And This Is What She Revealed

2 months ago | graziadaily.co.uk | Hattie Crisell

When designer Bella Freud launched Fashion Neurosis last autumn, where she asks interviewees to lie down while she delves into their psyches via questions about style, it was immediately a must-listen. Not only does the guestlist include the kind of best-in-class creatives who usually decline interviews (Zadie Smith, Kate Moss, Kim Gordon and Karl Ove Knausgaard have all appeared), but their fashion histories and habits quickly reveal more profound insights: how do they feel about their bodies?
Jane Austen's Sister Gets Her Moment

2 months ago | graziadaily.co.uk | Hattie Crisell

Home|Life|TV & FilmA smart period drama starring Keeley Hawes, Miss Austen is the perfect antidote to the Sunday scariesby Hattie Crisell | Published on3rd February 2025 at 4.21pmYou might expect the BBC drama Miss Austen to be all about the famous Jane. Born 250 years ago this year, her eight novels have inspired homages from Clueless (a riff on Emma) to Bridget Jones’s Diary (Pride & Prejudice). But the Austen taking centre stage here is Cassandra, Jane’s sister, played by Keeley Hawes.
Tom Crewe, novelist

Nov 21, 2024 | audioboom.com | Hattie Crisell

This week I'm talking to Tom Crewe, author of 2023's The New Life, contributing editor of the London Review of Books and winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. I visited Tom in September at his London office, which is really more of a nest of books, and we talked about the strange emotional journey of publication; the wrangling of structure; the role of sex scenes and much more.
Posy Simmonds, cartoonist and graphic novelist

Nov 14, 2024 | audioboom.com | Hattie Crisell

This week I'm in the London home of artist and writer Posy Simmonds. From the 1970s onwards, Posy had a regular comic strip in The Guardian, where she wrote Mrs Weber's Diary and later serialised the graphic novel Tamara Drewe. She went on to publish two more graphic novels, Gemma Bovery and Cassandra Darke. Earlier this year, she had a major exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and became the first British artist to win the Grand Prix at France’s Angoulême International Comics Festival.
Nathan Silver, filmmaker

Nov 7, 2024 | audioboom.com | Hattie Crisell

Nathan Silver, director and co-writer of Between the Temples (and many other movies) joins me from New York today to talk about his 'scriptment' approach to screenwriting, in which scripts read more like novellas. Nathan and I have a great chat about how he collaborates with cast and uses improvisation to tell a story; how comedy helps him to 'Trojan horse' experimental work to audiences; and his thoughts on letting an audience feel a little bit lost.
Hattie in the hot seat

Nov 6, 2024 | audioboom.com | Hattie Crisell

This slightly silly bonus episode marks the launch today of In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation, published in the UK by Granta Books. Friend of the podcast and former guest Sathnam Sanghera came to visit the room where I write, for a conversation about the writing life – touching on elaborate procrastination, the fetishisation of fountain pens, and whether writers are good at a party (or not).
In Writing: Hattie Crisell in conversation with Sheila Dillon

Nov 4, 2024 | ink84bookshop.co.uk | Hattie Crisell |Jesse Armstrong |Charlie Brooker |Wendy Cope

*Please select collect from shop after filling in your address to avoid postage fees, there are no physical tickets*Join author-writer-podcaster, Hattie Crisell, discussing her enlightening book In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation with the wonderful food journalist and great supporter of Ink, Sheila Dillon.
Yomi Adegoke, novelist and non-fiction writer

Oct 31, 2024 | audioboom.com | Hattie Crisell

Yomi Adegoke, bestselling author of The List and co-author of Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, spoke to me in August for this episode. We discussed the stellar career she's established in her twenties and early thirties – from launching a self-made magazine, to producing an acclaimed book on the experience of black British women, to writing a novel that has sold more than 150,000 copies in little over a year.
Craig Brown, satirist and biographer

Oct 24, 2024 | audioboom.com | Hattie Crisell

I had a great chat this week with Craig Brown, parody writer and columnist for Private Eye and the Daily Mail, and author of offbeat biographies including A Voyage Around the Queen; One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time; and Ma'am Darling (about Princess Margaret). Craig takes iconic cultural figures and writes around them, exploring how they were seen by their friends, fans and critics, and the strange, humorous and poignant ways that they affected other lives.