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The Quarterly Magazine of New Writing.
Joined February 2009
Today we publish Granta 172: Badlands. Read the summer edition online for free for the next five days or subscribe today and receive unlimited access to this issue, as well as our archive.
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RT @CLeonardNews: Please rush out to your nearest Barnes & Noble to pick up the latest William T. Vollmann dispatch in print, as it should….
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‘Since McDoone was a longtime pal, though one whom I often avoided, I would always go to see him alone. Our memories, real or imagined, could not be shared with outsiders.’. Dan Hofstadter on friendship.
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‘McDoone had been a sort of star, a kid we regarded as a prodigy. In high school he was a science whiz, a real-life amateur inventor, anointed in his senior year with a prestigious scholarship to...
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‘When I get to the Hebrides I’ll call / my mother nursing her father in Mexico’. Three poems by Patrick Romero McCafferty.
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‘When I get to the Hebrides I’ll call / my mother nursing her father in Mexico’ Three poems by Patrick Romero McCafferty.
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‘Writing scripts was as impossible as acting was. People only ever said banal things that looked idiotic on paper, and any meaningful lines I added seemed so contrived. What was the point of speaking?’. Fiction by Harriet Armstrong.
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‘I wanted to tell the magazines about my difficult thoughts and to be seen as interesting because of them. I wanted to be seen as a talented amazing person with a dark and complex heart.’
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RT @EmanuelDerman: Meat Country | J.M. Coetzee | Granta Magazine @GrantaMag.“America typifies the triumph of the common people in their h….
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‘What the imagination cannot encompass is death. Death, it says to itself, is the end of pain. Death is a relief.’ J.M. Coetzee in ‘Meat Country’ published in Granta 52: Food.
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‘Maggie was wearing M&S kids’ underpants with the word “Tuesday” written on them in pink cursive. Was she wearing those by accident or had she planned all this? In fairness she looked totally amazing.’. Fiction by Harriet Armstrong.
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‘I wanted to tell the magazines about my difficult thoughts and to be seen as interesting because of them. I wanted to be seen as a talented amazing person with a dark and complex heart.’
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RT @MortenHoiJensen: "The United States of America / Is a terrible disappointment." . — from Frederick Seidel's poem "The Desert Song" in t….
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RT @ryanhasbadtaste: “The bouncer sneeringly inquired if I supported Trump, and when I said that I did not, he disliked me slightly less.”….
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‘I put on Maggie’s gingham Urban Outfitters bikini and I looked like a model with a perfect figure. I think it’s okay to say that. I hated myself, I really did, but I looked totally amazing in Maggie’s teen girl bikini.’. Fiction by Harriet Armstrong.
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‘I wanted to tell the magazines about my difficult thoughts and to be seen as interesting because of them. I wanted to be seen as a talented amazing person with a dark and complex heart.’
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RT @ExcitedUttRead: The Desert Song | Frederick Seidel | @GrantaMag
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‘Succumb to art and sigh and hold your breath and die.’Poetry by Frederick Seidel.
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The latest episode of the Granta Podcast features Diane Williams. We discuss the four short stories she contributed to Granta 172: Badlands, her love of surprise in fiction and the porosity between her identity as a writer and editor. Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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‘This dead woman, Sarah, looked more like me than my own mother, than my sister and cousins. Down to the way she wore her hair, we looked just alike.’. Stephanie Wambugu on death, divorce and the uncanny.
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‘We had been having some marital problems, despite having been married for only eight months.’
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‘Shanghai Baby’s disgrace ruined Wei Hui’s public image, a fatal blow that landed, in large part, due to the book’s ‘autobiographical nature”.’. Zhang Yueran on women’s writing in China and the banning of Wei Hui’s Shanghai Baby.
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‘Wei Hui would have been the last person to acknowledge the story’s fictionality. She hoped readers would think of her protagonist as her.’
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‘Over time, Meyerowitz’s idea of field pictures led him away from street photography to portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.’. George Prochnik on Joel Meyerowitz’s career.
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‘Meyerowitz’s subjects frequently appear enmeshed in some variegated social context where anything might happen.’
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‘According to the civil registry, you’re my sister.’. Annie Ernaux on memory, family and her lost sister.
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‘You have always been dead. You entered my life dead the summer I turned ten. You were born and died in a story.’ Annie Ernaux on her secret sister, translated by Alison L. Strayer.
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RT @Onjerika: Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Stephanie Wambugu whose writing I discovered a few weeks ago. I think she's going to k….
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‘We had been having some marital problems, despite having been married for only eight months.’
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‘The United States of America, / It’s a fair bet, is going to die.’. ‘The Desert Song’ by Frederick Seidel.
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‘Succumb to art and sigh and hold your breath and die.’Poetry by Frederick Seidel.
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‘The wedding had been a big ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island, and throughout it I remembered feeling like an imposter, like I’d somehow snuck in.’. Short fiction by Stephanie Wambugu.
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‘We had been having some marital problems, despite having been married for only eight months.’
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