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Chris Ware in the latest Granta

shorkey wrote 5 days ago: Granta used to be a must read for me, but I have long stopped my subscription but still cherry pick … more →

Tags: Picks, Books, Comics, chris ware

Cambridge

Tench Ringgold wrote 1 week ago: n. A city in eastern England. I just finished Ariana Franklin’s very compelling medieval myste … more →

Tags: Place Names, Words of shocklngly obvious origin, Ariana Franklin, Cambridge, medieval England, henry ii, Cam, Elephant and Castle, Oxford

Following the voice

gotheca wrote 2 weeks ago: The best hours are at night when I can’t be sure if I’m dreaming. —Jessica Soffer, “Begi … more →

Tags: Technique, Fiction Writing Advice, Exposition, Jessica Soffer, beginning end, first second third person

The Rhys-Ford Affair, Over at Granta.com

koreanish wrote 3 weeks ago: My correspondence with Maud Newton on the novels Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford wrote after their af … more →

Tags: author's own, blogs, Books, Fiction, Writers, writing, Biographical Criticism, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Rhys

Jhumpa Lahiri & Mavis Gallant – Granta Q&A

prufrock wrote 1 month ago: Check out this fascinating Granta Q&A of Jhumpa Lahiri and Mavis Gallant at the Vill … more →

Tags: Q&As/readings, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mavis Gallant, qa, Reading, Village Voice Bookshop

Yes5 comments

morethangray wrote 1 month ago: While I’d love to live a manic life of endless pleasure, screaming bliss and treasures that ma … more →

Tags: My Voice, Animalitos, Familia, Home, cat, gardening, Love, Garden, animals

Professional membership drive

bridgereadings wrote 1 month ago: The UK’s Independent Publishers’ Guild (IPG) is reporting a 10% increase in membership since January … more →

Tags: Publishing, IPG, Canongate, Allen and Unwin, text, Pa, Publishing Scotland, Birlinn, Faber

a mixed dozen

alison wrote 2 months ago: Granta is a British literary magazine, published quarterly.  It calls itself  ‘the magazine of … more →

Tags: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, short, Richard Watson

The Self-Conscious Writer

sonyachung wrote 3 months ago: 9 April 2009  Granta recently published online a 1979 submission letter from the British novelist Ka … more →

Tags: Book Biz..., the writing life, Kazuo Ishiguro, Bill Buford

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Molly wrote 4 months ago: Now I don’t want to get all Paolo Coelho on us, but every so often on a Tuesday evening it doe … more →

Tags: Music, Literature, Ordinary, Led Bib, HP Sauce, liquorice, paolo coelho

Alexander Chee on Granta.com3 comments

koreanish wrote 4 months ago: John Freeman at Granta invited me to be one of the writers contributing short memoirs of their fathe … more →

Tags: author's own, Koreanish

Feuchtgebiete and the Feminist Gross Out

offthepresses wrote 4 months ago: In more corporeal, controversial book news (I’m looking down at you Jonathan Littell), German … more →

Tags: charlotte roche, Wetlands, Germany, Feminism

Thank Goodness That's Over...2 comments

Saeed wrote 4 months ago: I’ll be honest.   The above picture really has no relation to anything in this post. I saw it … more →

Tags: News & Culture, Dodge Poetry Festival

Writing while on Safari3 comments

Sean Jacobs wrote 7 months ago: Several years ago, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina (in a sarcastic essay “How to Write About … more →

Tags: Books, Add new tag, Binyavanga Wainaina, Say You're One of Them, Uwem Akpan, the translator, Dauoud Hari

Sunday news round-up: The threat from within1 comment

olivershah wrote 8 months ago: Since the London bombings of July 7, 2005, Britain has become a more troubled, less confident and h … more →

Tags: Politics, U.S. Elections, Society, Barack Obama, peter mandelson, George Osborne, Bill Clinton, Richard Watson, Jihad

It Bends Towards Justice

wdot wrote 8 months ago: Hi Friends & Family, Quite inspired by Obama’s speech tonight, I went digging into my lit … more →

Tags: Politics, obama election day speech

Pamuk Interview in Granta

pirano wrote 8 months ago: I started reading Istanbul: Memories and the City a few nights ago and found this of particular int … more →

Tags: Books, turkey, writing, Orhan Pamuk, Pamuk

Short Stories: More Best American Short Stories 2008

bookchronicle wrote 9 months ago: Best: x American: x Short: 21 Story: x From Ploughshares, Allegra Goodman’s “Closely Held” is a cros … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Short Stories, Salman Rushdie, best american short stories 2008, heidi pitlor, Harper’s Magazine, ploughshares, Allegra Goodman, closely held

Granta + Read-A-Thon1 comment

Steph wrote 9 months ago: Hi-ho! Midterm exam week has had me stuck looking at textbooks all week and last week. Stressful as … more →

Tags: granta magazine, read-a-thon, 24 Hour Readathon, 24 hr readathon


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