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Is there more information available on your website about Alarcón?

I wish Granta was around the doctor's waiting room and not Entertainment Weekly. Your publication takes the time to understand an author as an author, not an author from an interviewer's perspective, and it shows.

Granta- Thanks again for publishing content from the rest of the world. It's your greatest strength. I hope we hear more from Mboob.

@James- Yes, the location of Chicago bookshops is overly-specific for an English publication, but clearly there are American readers of both the print and the online material. By crossing the Atlantic, the website IS trying to reach a broader audience. Obviously.

'Pakistan' was one of the most unexpected themes I've seem from the editorial team. Kudos for both shaking things up and succeeding.

Thanks for another cross-over. It makes the website vital for any Granta reader and valuable for everyone else.

I wasn't where this piece would go-- an English working-man's tale in the 'Work' issue-- but I was pleasantly surprised to watch the story expand into a memoir of the transference of the idea of work between generations. An excellent father figure, and an excellent author able to visualize each aspect of the story from two ends of the spectrum.

The pace of this story is incredibly strong-- the setting is described so lushly and languidly that the reader is lulled to island time until BAM! the enemy arrives. Well done.

Dear Granta online editor- I love when you include multimedia supplements to the already great written content of your site. Sincerely, -loyal reader.

A great story for anyone who's ever found themselves in a foreign land, and an even more foreign medical system. This piece reminded me of my time in Ghana, when we were asked to include our religion upon registration, and then found out (after an hour of waiting) that the doctor we were waiting for was at Sunday mass the whole time and probably wouldn't be in for a few more hours. Thanks for highlighting a rare side of travel writing-- the humor inherent in a bureaucratic headache.

Thanks for this corollary to the young writers piece. I really appreciate reading the advice from your new voices, and I hope to include it in my own attitudes towards writing.

Great memoir. Thanks, Janice.

Wow. More Lavinia Greenlaw, please.

I was waiting and waiting for some mention of Cut Creek, and then the story froze as the truck hit the bump and it felt like I was watching the events on screen-- the sun cutting across the characters, the events of an instant spread across a paragraph. Excellent pace to this story.

Haunting writing. Roskos infuses every word with nauseating, paranoid feeling.

These audio segments are a great method of keeping Granta readers in focus in between the quarterly issues, and I always appreciate a cross-promotion from print to online. Thanks for posting.

Will this subject fall under the every-decade rotation of the British and American series? I agree with sotavento-- the Caribbean is a hotbed of young talent right now, and it would be a shame to wait until 2020 to include the region. Perhaps a Caribbean writing issue is cooked up already?

I was unfamiliar with the works of Lord until these recent articles. Thank you for dedicating a week to Lord and sharing his work with your readers.

Great idea for literary research- the letter format portrayed the books of the authors as direct correspondence, which may be a bit extreme, but it reenvisioned classic works by venerable authors in a way I never would have thought.

Freeman sounds like the perfect person to run the creative future of Granta. I haven't read much by him, but his on-the-spot interview responses are so well-spoken and keyed-in to the literary magazine business that I can't help but expect more and more from this unmatched creative space.

I had never heard of O'Rourkes until reading this article, but Ebert made me feel like I missed out on something irretrievable and unforgettable, and that all readers are worse off for diving into the nostalgia and knowing we missed the boat. But that's okay. I'm just inspired to find my own O'Rourkes.

Always good to hear from A.L. Kennedy. 'Story of My Life' is one of the pieces that's stayed with me over the years. I appreciate Granta for offering us vignettes from favorite authors in between novels. Thanks again.

Powerful piece. Did Halai write this before the Japanese tsunamis? Given nature's recent events, this poem takes on a far darker meaning.

Finally- more from Dave Eggers in the pages of Granta.

This excerpt definitely left me wanting to read more, especially because I was confused the entire time as to whether Sebastien or Jimmy was the orphan.

I just finished "sister's brother" and it was a great read, with some of the best cover art I've seen in years.

Well-written juxtaposition between seedy mob hits and familiar pancake houses. Again, excellent piece.

I've never even heard of the gadulka, but it felt like my upstairs neighbor's been playing one for years. great writing.

Excellent piece. It's incredibly relatable... everyone has a surly lovable relative on the opinionated outskirts of the family. I loved the character, even though it's clearly based on fact.

I loved this piece. The characters are all so brief, yet so well-developed and relatable. I think I've been to that German women's Chicago shop before.

Are these excerpts from a Toby Litt work or just hilarious one-liners that make me wish there was an entire book out there?

I just finished deWitt's book (Sis-bro, if you will). It truly was a western for non-western fans. The setting, characters, names, places, everything was perfectly displayed and incredibly absorbing.

Nice perspective. I always appreciate a piece that approaches a seemingly contemporary science-and-faith issue from a divergent historical and cultural perspective. Excellent piece.

Much appreciated inside perspective on the conflict. Dog-eat-dog, us-or-them Al-Jadeed against Al-Jazeera. It sounds like West picked a dicey time to visit Lebanon, but I appreciated the evenness in his writing. No pandering with "I endured" vignettes, but solid reporting through-and-through. Well done, West.

I really valued the relatability of the piece-- how we're drawn to the same types of people over our lifetime, but how we can never piece together all we want into one being.

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