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My daughter bought my subscription last Christmas.
I usually don't read every story in each edition I get.
I did read all the stories in this one and it was really enjoyable.
Also the cover is stunning.

Marvelous, all 3 poems - not a wasted word anywhere !

I am on my own Odyssey looking for Penelope. Write on, Katha !!!

David Panckeri, another poet of the particular

As a native Chicagoan and southsider now moved west to Oregon, and as a late blooming aspiring writer with a novel in progress set in Chicago, I look forward to reading this issue. (In my college years I feasted on James T. Farrell: I was homesick. Perhaps this collection will do much to keep my lovers' quarrel with the city alive.)

So... How's about that novel?

"I Remember It Well"

sung by Steve Lawrence, Maurice Chevalier et al

An impressive piece of writing, but for experienced only, as it is full of symbols, which are sometimes confusing. Highly creative and imaginative. I liked the narrative technique and the way voices of characters are intermixed.

It occurs to me, as I am sure it has occurred to many other people, that to make some offensive or abusive remark toward James, a previous poster, would be very satisfying.

This is not the place, James, but do know that there are many of us who loathe you.

Links to bookshops in Chicago are of very little interest to readers on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. The website should try to be of broader interest.

I hope one of these bookstores featured gives James T. Farrell some love!

Congratulations, Granta is a great magazine with a fine tradition, I'm sure you will add to its reputation.

It's a wonderful issue, full of great writing. I particularly enjoyed Neil Steinberg's piece, 'Driving with EdMcElroy'.

Congratulations. The Chicago issue was excellent. I look forward to many more such issues.

congrats!
karin

Hilary Mantel, through her latest Booker-winning work has proved that she is the legitimate heir to Irving Stone whose masterpieces on Vangogh and Maum and Clarence Darrow still remain unsurpassed.

made me feel like I really wanted to be on that street, sharing the experience from a distance.

nostaligic.....
enjoyed it...

hey, enjoyed that, nice smooth language.thanks

Well . . . I liked reading this. Russell is right about the sweet country butter. You shouldn't eat that other stuff.

glacier/pier/idea...

but how did she ask that question?

with her eyes?

ask that night?

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The consistent quality of the writing in this issue make it a winner. If it were an album then the editors have a hit on their hands and it will go straight to Number 1 'with a bullet'.

It's just a story we tell ourselves to explain how we got here. As Faulkner wrote in "Light in August": Memory believes before knowing remembers.

This is a wonderfully warm portrait of Chicago. Thank you to those who selected it. Thank you also to those who selected the Aleksander Hemon story of the coffee set inherited as a token from a tragic loss. I am reminded of an earlier Granta I have which contains a story about the man who had a Beverly Hills custom hand bag store which is visited by the writer who wants to talk about Oskar Schindler, as the proprietor knew him. I loved that story and the tone of this narration on Chicago reminds me of it. I used to go to Granville avenue in the 1980's to visit an uncle who is a missionary priest. We played tennis near there and visited people. I later went to Cameroon to visit the same uncle.

O'Rourke's was probably the hippist watering hole in the city. With the influence of Roger Ebert, nationally known figures from the arts would mix with the locals in one of the friendliest venues I have known. On occasion Roger would climb on to the bar and launch into his best imitation of Al Jolson singing 'Mammy'. I still have a photo of I took of him in full cry. I only lived in Chicago for a brief period but still have fond memories of the city and O'Rourke's.

Robinhood

Wow, this was really trippy is this actually true?

On another note this was well written and it was very interesting