This is the second part of the conversation with the writer Darran Anderson. Read part one here.

Anderson is an essayist and memoirist writing at the intersections of culture, politics, urbanism, and technology, has been recognised for his debut Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between (2015), a hugely ambitious analysis of real and imagined cities throughout history, and Inventory (2020), his searing memoir about growing up in poverty in Derry. Anderson was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize in 2023.