Copyright 2010 Granta en Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:38:21 +0000 60 Latest messages on the Granta Magazine Mailing List http://www.granta.com/Newsletter http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/March-Newsletter http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/March-Newsletter **Welcome to Granta's March Newsletter!**

And for those of you in the Northern hemisphere, welcome to spring...

Contents:
- News and highlights
- Next issue - shhh...
- Theatre tickets offer
- Events


NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

In case you've missed them, here are some recent highlights from our website - followed by a peek at what's to come, from both the printers and the digi-labs. When browsing granta.com, remember that all of our web-exclusive content is now spreadable - like butter - across your favourite networks with the ShareThis function (unlike butter).

* Folk singer NATALIE MERCHANT spoke to Ellah Allfrey about childhood, 'children's emergence into language' and our fear of death, in this video:
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Interview-Natalie-Merchant

* Granta's own Patrick Ryan remembered his weirdest-ever job in 'Athena Sees Good Things for You' (http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Athena-Sees-Good-Things-for-You), and our new artistic director Michael Salu gave us his take on photographer MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY - whose work, with collaboration from Patrick Waterhouse, featured in our latest issue, Granta 109: Work - http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/The-Work-of-Mikhael-Subotzky

* For the relaunch of our New Voices project, which promotes an emerging writer by publishing an exclusive short story online, we chose Kenyan writer BILLY KAHORA's story 'The Gorilla's Apprentice', set in Nairobi Animal Orphanage in the aftermath of the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008: http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/The-Gorillas-Apprentice

* Journalist and author JEREMY SEABROOK asked himself what lives he would have led if born in other ages, in 'Work I Never Did' - a two-part online complement to our 'Work' issue: http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Work-I-Never-Did-Part-I

* In a video interview about his latest book, All That Follows, JIM CRACE is frank about his politics, and explains why he will only write one more book: http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Interview-with-Jim-Crace With a reading from the author of his extract in Granta 109.


And forthcoming we have...

* A poem from GEORGE MURRAY, with a recording of the poet reading his work; and a series of competitions for our 'Best of Young Novelists' from both sides of the Atlantic, in which books signed by the authors will be given away when entrants buy a 'Best of Young Novelists' collection.

And remember that our current issue can be perused at leisure here:
http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work


SEX (No, offers are the next sub-heading...)

We have just gone to press with our new issue, the theme of which is 'Sex'. Whether you are starved of it or steeped in it; embarrassed or emboldened by
it; whether you commit it or omit it, you can’t get away from it. Expect searing fiction from Herta Müller, Roberto Bolaño and Chris Offutt; memoir from Marie Darieussecq and Rupert Thomson; a visit to a monastery from Michael Symmons Roberts; two photographic essays exploring bodies and space; four poems; drawings from Dave Eggers, and more. Believe me, there’s more.


OFFER

A few words for theatre-goers from our friends at the Old Vic:

'Get a free drink & programme when you buy a top-price ticket for -

The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard at the Old Vic Theatre

Anna Mackmin returns to The Old Vic to direct Hattie Morahan & Toby Stephens in Tom Stoppard's multi-award-winning modern classic. Deeply moving and startlingly funny, this razor-sharp drama brilliantly examines the complex nature of love, art and reality.

Call the Box Office on 0844 871 7628 and quote 'Granta Offer'. Offer applies to £47 tickets and includes a glass of house wine, bottle of beer or soft drink. Valid for all performances, 10-20 April, subject to availability.'



EVENTS

In the US:

* On 9th March, John Freeman will read from his book 'The Tyranny of Email' at the University of Michigan's Creative Writing Program. He will also meet with students for dinner with students. For more information please call the university's English department on 734-764-6330 or contact Patrick Ryan on 212-614-7978

In the UK:

* On Thursday 11th March at the Aye Write Festival, Mitchell Library, Glasgow:
Rupert Thomson, Janice Galloway and William Fiennes will be speaking at the Granta biography panel event, 7.30 pm.
http://www.ayewrite.com/Programme/Events/grantaautobiography_event.htm

* ...and an advance notice for the launch events for our Sex issue, beginning April 11th at the Cambridge Wordfest, with Granta's literary breakfast in the morning, and a panel discussion on writing about sex in the afternoon. That week will also see the launch party proper for Granta 110: Sex. ]]> http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/January-2010 http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/January-2010 **Welcome to Granta's January Newsletter!**

This month sees the launch of our latest issue, Granta 109: Work. Click here for the online version, which features photography, articles and videos, as well as pieces appearing in print:
http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work

Most of us spend more time at work than anywhere else, but are our lives defined by the work that we do? The theme that has become almost invisible in modern literature, but we couldn't escape it much longer... Click here to see Granta editor John Freeman introduce the issue:

http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Grantas-new-issue-WORK

IN THIS ISSUE

Read the following pieces for free on granta.com:

Daniel Alarcón infiltrates the extraordinary parallel world of book pirating in Peru in 'Life Among the Pirates'
http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work/Life-Among-the-Pirates/1

Aminatta Forna considers why caring for animals is essential to being human http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work/The-Last-Vet/1

Martin Kimani examines the work of war as farmers take up arms in Rwanda
http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work/The-Work-of-War/1

And Peter Stothard remembers his childhood in a Marconi village in Essex
http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work/Essex-Clay/1

Also new fiction from Jim Crace -

http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work/All-That-Follows/1

V.V. Ganeshananthan -

http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work/Hippocrates/1

and Joshua Ferris -

http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-109-Work/The-Unnamed/1

ONLINE ONLY

Exclusive online-only content for this issue includes writing by Ruchir Joshi, Nicola Monaghan, New York Times Labor Correspondent Steven Greenhouse and video interviews with Daniel Alarcón and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.

http://www.granta.com/Online-Only

You can purchase Granta 109: Work for £10.99 online by clicking below:
http://www.granta.com/Shop?view=addProduct&productFactoryName=backIssues&productId=189

...Or even better, take advantage of our special offer! We will include Granta 109: Work for free when you take out a Granta subscription and you will also receive a Moleskine ® notebook with our compliments.
https://secure.hosts.co.uk/~alliance-media.co.uk/grantanew/ind.php?promotion=ENJAN10

GRANTA EVENTS

Click below to see reports from our launch parties on London last week. If you're in the US, it's not too late...
http://www.granta.com/109-Parties

US Events - we hope you can make it!

Tuesday February 2nd: Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Time: 7pm (TBC)
John Freeman, Daniel Alarcon and Yiyun Li in a panel discussion on 'work'.
Click here for more info:
http://www.mtbs.com/

Wednesday February 3rd: Book Passage, San Francisco, CA
Time: 7.00pm
John Freeman, Daniel Alarcon and Yiyun Li in a panel discussion on 'work'.
http://www.bookpassage.com

Thursday February 4th: McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York, NY
Time: 7.00pm
Patrick Ryan will speak to Colum McCann, who will also read from his piece, 'Looking for the Rozziner', about the Irish newspaper where his father worked.
http://mcnallyjackson.com/

**SPECIAL OFFERS!**

New Subscribers: The first seven people to sign up for a Granta subscription will receive a copy of the current issue signed by contributors Peter Stothard, Aminatta Forna and Martin Kimani. A collectors' item, to be sure...

Please email James Hollingsworth on jhollingsworth@granta.com, providing your name, address and phone number.

And lastly, the Granta team would like to wish you a happy and healthy 2010. But most of all, happy reading...

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]]> http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/Mailout-28798 http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/Mailout-28798 Welcome to the August newsletter for GRANTA

In this newsletter


--Forthcoming issues

--New on www.granta.com

--Upcoming events (London)

--Granta event in San Francisco

--Forthcoming issues

GRANTA 108: CHICAGO (available in September)

Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway grew up there. The eight-hour work day, the Ponzi scheme and the rhythm and blues have risen from its streets. But Chicago is not just a city of the past. In this dynamic issue, GRANTA brings the one-time industrial hub to life through the eyes of exciting new writers, from home grown stars like George Saunders and Dave Eggers, to immigrants who have come to the city from Bosnia, China and Ethiopia.

In this issue, Aleksandar Hemon plays football with Italians and Tibetans along Lake Shore Drive. Chicago born MacArthur 'genius' grant-winning photographer Camilo José Vegara captures the demolition of the city's massive public housing estates. Richard Powers recollects the flood of 1992. Don DeLillo remembers Nelson Algren. Alex Kotlowitz explores the cost of urban violence and Dinaw Mengestu describes moving back home to run his dying father’s messenger business. Plus a sneak preview of Peter Carey's new novel.

Finally, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka meditates on the meaning of the city's most visible son, Barack Obama. Out of these stories, which will be wrapped in a beautiful cover by Chris Ware, will arise a vivid portrait of a city remaking itself: a city shredded by violence but poised for a new future; a city that once again has a legitimate claim to being the home of the world's best writers.

GRANTA 109: WORK (available in December)


Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Industrial Revolution is, for better or for worse, our inclination to define who were are by what we do, and this essential new issue of GRANTA will lay bare the intrinsic link between work and identity.

From the jobless to the workaholics, from the hard work of dying to the landscape work has created out of office parks and suburbs, GRANTA 109 will tell the story of how and why we work in the twenty-first century. Joshua Ferris returns to the mind-numbing world of office work in America in a new piece of fiction, while Steven Hall visits the world's pre-eminent robot lab to see what machines will do for us next. Caroline Moorehead explores the trafficking of workers into the United Kingdom and Daniel Alarcón infiltrates the world of book pirating in Peru. Salman Rushdie contributes a surprising essay on sloth.

GRANTA 109 gives us a glimpse of ourselves at our most primordial, in a day and age when work has become the most invisible (at least in literature) and yet all-encompassing aspect of human life.

--New on www.granta.com

Interview: A conversation with Louis de Bernières, the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Birds Without Wings, voted a GRANTA Best Young Novelist in 1993
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Louis-de-Bernieres

Essay: 'One Ridge Over' by Josh Weil
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/One-Ridge-Over

Podcast: Rana Dasgupta and Ruchir Joshi discuss Delhi's super rich
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Podcast-Rana-Dasgupta-and-Ruchir-Joshi

Video: An interview with Eleanor Catton, author of the award-winning debut novel The Rehearsal
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Interview-Eleanor-Catton

Audio: A.L. Kennedy, Adam Thirlwell, Erica Wagner and John Freeman discuss the history and future of literary magazines
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Writing-in-the-digital-age

Essay: 'Utica in the rearview mirror' by Ariel Leve
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Where-Im-Calling-From

--Upcoming Events (London)

FRIEZE ART FAIR 15-18 OCTOBER 2009

Visit FRIEZE ART FAIR in October and take part in the contemporary art event of the year. Focusing on the most interesting galleries working today from Berlin to Los Angeles and London to Tokyo, the fair introduces and showcases new and established artists. A fresh and exciting addition for 2009 will be the first presentation of FRAME, a new section dedicated to solo artist presentations by young galleries from around the world.

Advanced Bookings before 1 October 2009
One Day Thur/ Fri £15
One Day Sat/ Sun £20
Concessions £10
Four Day £40

Bookings after 1 October 2009
One Day Thur/ Fri £15
One Day Sat/ Sun £25
Concessions £15
Four Day £60

Book online now http://www.seetickets.com/frieze/> or call +44(0)871 230 7159. Booking fee applies.

To find out more visit http://www.frieze.com



Manchester Literature Festival 09
15 – 25 October
www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

Featuring Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Kate Atkinson, Joan Bakewell, Eoin Colfer, Marilyn Hacker, James Lasdun, Michelle Magorian, Val McDermid, Jimmy McGovern, Jeff Noon, Ruth Padel, Frederic Raphael, Fay Weldon, Guo Yue and many others.

With everything from Football Detectives to Darwin-inspired poetry; from a Rainy City Stories tour to a cartooning workshop for all the family, there’s sure to be something to spark your imagination. Visit the festival website for full programme details or call 0161 236 5555 to order a brochure.

MLF are also presenting a special trailblazer event featuring Margaret Atwood at Manchester Cathedral on 1st September. For full details and to book tickets visit the website: www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

Granta event in San Francisco

Happy Hour with Granta & The Believer!

Come help break up the summer doldrums and celebrate our summer issues with an informal, last-minute, just-for-the-hell of it party with GRANTA and THE BELIEVER. The beer is on us (at least the first round or two!) and yes, there will be snacks.

When: Friday, August 7th, 5-7 p.m.
Where: Amnesia, 853 Valencia St (Between 19th & 20th)
http://www.amnesiathebar.com]]> http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/June-2009 http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/June-2009 Welcome to the June/July newsletter for GRANTA: The magazine of new writing.

In this newsletter

-- New on www.granta.com

-- Forthcoming issues

-- Granta event in London

-- The Rehearsal Project

-- Special offers


-- New on www.granta.com


After the Affair
Maud Newton and Alexander Chee on the tumultous relationship between Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/After-the-affair


Interview
A conversation with Ha Jin
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Interview


A question of identity
Dubravka Ugresic on homelands and haircuts
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Questions-of-Identity


Tales from literary festivals
Anita Sethi on the global festival circuit
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Tales-from-literary-festivals


Video
Jhumpa Lahiri and Mavis Gallant discuss the art of the short story
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Lahiri-Gallant


Interview
A conversation with John Freeman, GRANTA's Acting Editor
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/A-conversation-with-John-Freeman


-- Forthcoming issues

GRANTA 107
Available in July
107: With its mixture of investigative reportage, narrative non-fiction, photography, memoir, fiction and brilliant journalism, GRANTA 107 follows on from the critically acclaimed summer reading issue to showcase more of the best new writing from around the world. In the issue, Mary Gaitskill meditates on how we measure varieties of loss after the disappearance of her rescued cat; Will Self remembers J.G. Ballard; Rana Dasgupta reports from Delhi on the emergence of India's super rich; and Javier Marías explores his fear of flying.

-- Forthcoming: Granta 108: Chicago
Available in September
Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway grew up there. The eight-hour work day, the Ponzi scheme and the rhythm and blues have risen from its streets. But Chicago is not just a city of the past. In this dynamic issue, Granta brings the one-time industrial hub to life through the eyes of exciting new writers, from home grown stars like George Saunders and Dave Eggers, to immigrants who have come to the city from Bosnia, South Korea and Ethiopia. In this issue, Aleksandar Hemon plays football with Italians and Tibetans along Lake Shore Drive; Booker Prize finalist Hisham Matar recalls moving to the city to join one of its storied architecture firms; Richard Powers recalls the flood of 1992; and Don DeLillo remembers Nelson Algren. Plus Sara Paretsky meditates on police torture and Dinaw Mengestu describes moving back home to run his dying father's messenger business.

-- GRANTA event in London

Thursday 9 July, 7.45 p.m.
Southbank Centre, Purcell Room

For 30 years Granta has published the most relevant and best writing of fiction, reportage and memoir. How have our tastes and requirements in literature changed over the years? What is the future of literary magazines in a world moving on from the printed word?

AL Kennedy, author of PARADISE and DAY, and Adam Thirwell, author of POLITICS, discuss their writing in the digital age and share their opinions about the future of our literary culture with Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times.

Tickets £9 (Concession 50% off, limited availability)

Book tickets now at http://tinyurl.com/kqeo8a or call 0871 663 2500


GRANTA would like to invite all ticket holders to a pre-event drinks reception in the Sunley Pavilion at Southbank Centre at 7 p.m. Meet our new editor John Freeman and toast the release of our latest issue, GRANTA 107. Admission is free with a ticket. Places are limited and booking is essential. To reserve a place email southbankevent@granta.com.



-- The Rehearsal Project


Is your life a performance? ‘The Rehearsal Project’ - a GRANTA partnership with Flavorpill and The School of Life

GRANTA have teamed up with Flavorpill and London's School of Life to launch the 'Rehearsal Project' – a search for some of the best film and animation talent from across the world. GRANTA release Eleanor Catton's provocative and much anticipated debut novel, The Rehearsal this July (you may recognize Eleanor's name from the recent GRANTA Fiction special). 'Life as performance' is Catton's theme and we are searching for film or digital media shorts centred around this concept – it's art responding to art. We’ll be posting our favourites on Flavorpill – www.flavorpill.com – and granta.com throughout the month, with the winner to be decided by a high profile judging panel and announced at the School of Life on July 15th. This is a chance for up and coming talent to showcase their work to a commited world-wide audience.
To find out how to take part in this project visit http://tinyurl.com/kpk5ww.

To read the advance preview first chapter of THE REHEARSAL, visit www.granta.com/rehearsal


-- Special Offer for GRANTA subscribers


Join as a Southbank Centre Member and as a GRANTA subscriber you will receive a complimentary copy of Charlotte Mullins' A FESTIVAL ON THE RIVER: THE STORY OF SOUTHBANK CENTRE (RRP £9.99), a fascinating and informative book charting the Extraordinary history of the Southbank Centre.*

Full Membership starts from just £40, and in addition to youR FREE copy of A FESTIVAL ON THE RIVER: THE STORY OF SOUTHBANK CENTRE our membership will include a host of benefits, including:

** Priority booking for key events like the London Literature
Festival, Meltdown, and the Classical and Dance seasons
** No booking fees
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** Exclusive offers
** Regular updates
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Join now, and start enjoying the benefits of Membership today.
Just phone 0871 663 2580 and quote 'Granta Offer'.


* Offer ends 31 July 2009. Limited availability. Only available with Full and Dual Membership. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.]]> http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/Mailout-26467 http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/Mailout-26467 Welcome to the May newsletter from GRANTA: The Magazine of New Writing.

In this email

-- New on Granta.com

-- Anniversary Fiction Issue


-- Forthcoming: GRANTA 107

-- Upcoming Events

-- Special Offers

***

-- New on Granta.com

Rhyme and Reason by Adam Gopnik
In conversation with the award-winning poet and essayist Katha Pollitt
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Rhyme-and-Reason


Letter from Gaza by Hisham Matar
The tragic life of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Letter-from-Gaza


Dragon Island by Laura Fellowes
The most recent in our New Voices series
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Dragon-Island


The Last Modernist by Chris Petit
A consideration of the life and work of J.G. Ballard
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/The-Last-Modernist



A Vacation from Myself by John Beckman
‘What I gained, and lost, from antidepressants’
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/A-vacation-from-myself


The Public Poet by Lavinia Greenlaw
An appreciation of Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s first female poet laureate
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Carol-Ann-Duffy


Getting Lost by Heidi Julavits
One wintry weekend in the Berkshires
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Getting-Lost

***

-- GRANTA 106: New Fiction Special
Available to subscribers now


GRANTA 106 is a special issue devoted to fiction and includes new work by Paul Auster, Amy Bloom, Adam Thirlwell, Helen Simpson, Nicola Barker and Ha Jin. Plus, Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer Jhumpa Lahiri travels to Paris to interview the critically acclaimed writer Mavis Gallant.And John Banville reflects upon his objet trouvé.


***

-- FORTHCOMING: GRANTA 107
Available in July

In this issue, Mary Gaitskill meditates on how we measure varieties of loss after the disappearance of her rescued cat; Will Self on being J.G. Ballard’s mind-child; and Rana Dasgupta reports from Delhi on the emergence of India’s super rich. Plus, new fiction by Tamas Dobozy and Kenzaburō Ōe.

***

-- Upcoming events (United States)

May 13, 7 p.m., Cambridge Mass
Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge Mass
Launch party for GRANTA 106. Wine-down with contributors Ha Jin and William Pierce, who will read from their work. RSVP: (617) 661-1515.


May 15, 7 p.m., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
20 Congress Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Join William Pierce and GRANTA American editor John Freeman for a salon discussion of literary magazine publishing. RSVP: (603) 431-2100

May 28, 8 p.m., New York City
Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street, Manhattan
GRANTA and BOMB magazine party at Housing Works Bookstore. Details to be announced.



June 1, 7:30 p.m., New York City
New School, Lang Student Center, 55 West 13th Street
Join the New School and their summer session students in a banner reading from Paul Auster, whose ‘Invisible’ appears in GRANTA 106.


***

-- Special Offers

Receive free membership to the Arvon Friends scheme
The Arvon Foundation runs week-long creative writing courses in four beautiful, historic houses in Devon, Shropshire, Yorkshire and Inverness-shire. You might write in your room with a view across Shropshire’s Long Mynd, or walk around the grounds and write in a writing hut at Lumb Bank. Perform your work in the barn we have at Totleigh Barton, or enjoy one of your workshops in the dining room at Ted Hughes’s former holiday home, Lumb Bank. Arvon is where writing takes place. Find out more about our courses for writers of every kind, at every stage, in every genre – go to www.arvonfoundation.org.

To celebrate thirty years of GRANTA, Arvon is giving away 30 memberships to the Arvon Friends scheme. Normally £25 for a year, Arvon Friendship means you can publish your writing online, have your writing read and reviewed by other Friends and editors, receive the Arvon courses brochure one month before everyone else and receive discounts on Arvon courses. At the moment, we have a £50 discount for Arvon Friends on our Nature Writing course in May with Anna Pavord. To enter the competition, simply write a six word story and send it to competition@arvonfoundation.org as soon as possible. The first thirty entries which tell an intriguing story will win an Arvon Friendship and all entries will be published on the Arvon website.
]]> http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/April-2009 http://www.granta.com/Newsletter/April-2009 Welcome to the April newsletter from GRANTA: The Magazine of New Writing. 2009 is GRANTA's thirtieth anniversary year, and to celebrate we'll be publishing a special fiction issue this summer, hosting special events, and publishing yet more outstanding fiction, reportage, memoir and photography both in print and online. Please explore our newly relaunched website, and join the GRANTA community online.

In this email

-- New on www.granta.com

-- Anniversary Fiction Issue

-- Upcoming Events

-- Special Offers


--New on www.granta.com

Original message by Austin Grossman
A short story about espionage, intrigue, desire and deceit
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Original-message

Lost and Found by Je Banach
The genius of Charles Lamb
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Lost-and-Found


Poetry
A new poem by Wislawa Szymborska, the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Teenager

Memorabilia
Kazuo Ishiguro's 1979 letter to GRANTA editor Bill Buford
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/kazuo-Ishiguro

Keeping it in the family
Said Sayrafiezadeh reflects upon his father
http://tinyurl.com/czap4o



--Anniversary Fiction Issue
(Publication date, May 2009)
To celebrate its thirtieth birthday, GRANTA brings you an extra issue this summer. Dedicated to the most exciting and vibrant new fiction from around the world, the issue is filled with wonderful short stories, extracts from works-in-progress and a thought-provoking survey of the contemporary literary landscape. GRANTA 106 includes fiction by Paul Auster, Ha Jin, Nicola Barker, Adam Thirlwell, Helen Simpson and Amy Bloom. Plus: Jhumpa Lahiri, author of the highly acclaimed collection UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, travels to Paris to interview one of the world's most accomplished short-story writers, Mavis Gallant.

--Upcoming Events

--London


GRANTA 105 Discussion
Tuesday 21 April 2009, 7.45pm
Level 5 Function Room, Southbank Centre
Jeremy Treglown and Elizabeth Pisani, two contributors to GRANTA 105, discuss trauma and memory through their varying experiences as writers and reporters who have witnessed era-defining events. Event is chaired by writer Caroline Moorehead.
For more information and to book tickets:
http://tinyurl.com/cfp895

--US

April 25, 2pm
Panel at Los Angeles Times Book Fair
UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, Young Hall CS 50
Fiction: Past and Present, with Susan Straight, David Benioff, and Achy Obejas, moderated by GRANTA's American editor, John Freeman

April 25, 8:30 p.m. – midnight
GRANTA party at Equator Books, Venice California
Abbot Kinney Blvd.
RSVP to jfreeman@granta.com
(310) 399-5544

April 26, 2 p.m.
Panel at Los Angeles Times Book Fair
UCLA, Fowler Museum Lenart
Publishing: From Keyboard to Bookstore, with American editor John Freeman, Kerry Slattery, Johnny Temple, moderated by Betsy Amster


May 2nd, 4:30 p.m.
Panel discussion at PEN World Voices Festival, New York City
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
EAST-WEST STORYTELLING, with Nadeem Aslam, Nam Le, Fuad Rifka, and Antje Rávic Strubel; moderated by GRANTA American editor John Freeman


--Special offers

--Aesthetica Annual

Aesthetica Annual Publication now available
With sections dedicated to short fiction, poetry and art, the AESTHETICA ANNUAL provides a selection of the best of British and international writers and artists. It’s a fantastic volume to dip in and out of throughout the year allowing you to experience 128 glossy pages of contemporary fiction, poetry and artwork hot off the press. See the works of your contemporaries and the range of writing and art from 2008.

SPECIAL OFFER ON AESTHETICA ANNUAL FOR GRANTA READERS

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