by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
We are what we remember, and even when we invent, we write what we remember. Every line is a fragment of something else; that is the great collective project that we call culture. In this issue of Granta, writers remember, or invent, scenes from their own lives and the lives of others. Ann Beattie Fiona Benson Andrew Brown Bernard Cooper Lydia Davis David Gates Arcelis Girmay Laura Kasischke Olivia Laing Colin McAdam Lorrie Moore Norman Rush Johnny Steinberg Nathan Thornburgh Marta Werner Edmund White Joy Williams Introducing: Katherine Faw Morris Photography: Brigitte Grignet Yuri Kozyrev Collages: Janet Malcolm
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 272
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
Published: 23 Jan 2014
ISBN 10: 1905881797
ISBN 13: 9781905881796
Book Overview: 'The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.' -- Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory