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It seems that you are maintaining a steady blogging pace. Well done! Looking for more updates from your end. Thanks a lot!

In the wind.

Beautiful
sounds and
a delicate care
in the heart of
a soft wind,
with a tender
profile and a
warm atmosphere.

Francesco Sinibaldi

I really enjoyed this story while believing the narrator was 'the boy's' sister.

I lost interest upon finding 'the boy's' Dad was the narrator.

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.

Good story! love the description of the father as an elmore leonard assassin, love the description of the family, love the description of the tumor... you definitely played the heartstrings here.

Sobrio y silente.

El viento,
el dulzor de
la noche que
viene dichosa
como un dulce
pájaro cuando
el canto regresa.

Francesco Sinibaldi

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?

This post is awesome..i've been reading tons of crap posts from other blogs, but shows you have a more educated reader base.

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.