neilb

Laborious. I've been asking myself questions about Granta - about once every three months. Where are the modern writers these days? Maybe it's "What is there to say?"; and "How do you say it?" Maybe it's as Melvyn Bragg suggested in an edition of South Bank Show several years ago, the real modern writer is unknown, is not famous, and does not seek mere shallow short-lived "recognition". There are Stars out there. Locked out of the flood of quantity (while no one reads, or has time to read, quality). There is also such a thing as quality of subject matter.