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Grandma and Me

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Blazing Sun

‘That is why, in December, when the smell of approaching rain reaches my nostrils, I am filled with genuine joy: the joy of things that are about to happen.’ Tatiana Salem Levy on Rio de Janeiro.

Zagreb

‘I sometimes think nostalgically of a distant totalitarian year I spent in Moscow.’ Dubravka Ugrešić on surviving the Serbo-Croatian war.

Torre De Valencia, for Kevin Breathnach

Cracking Up

Kevin Breathnach is on the verge of cracking up. An excerpt from the book Tunnel Vision.

Hot Rain

A story from Terese Svoboda’s new collection, Great American Desert.

Martin Goodman | Notes on Craft

Martin Goodman on why it took him twenty years to write his latest novel.

Diana Athill

Margaret Atwood on her friend and editor, Diana Athill.

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Caoilinn Hughes

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Grandma and Me

Thomas McGuane

‘Barring weather or a World Series game, on Sundays I’d pick up a nice little box lunch from Mustang Catering and take Grandma some place that smelled good.’

Blazing Sun

Tatiana Salem Levy

‘It’s never easy to trade one love for another.’

Zagreb

Dubravka Ugrešić

‘‘We’ll print your book if you bring us 140 kilos of paper,’ says my friend, a publisher. ‘Where can I find 140 kilos of paper?’ ‘I don’t know. That’s your problem, you’re the writer.’’

Deng’s Dogs

Santiago Roncagliolo

‘My earliest memory of Peru is a newspaper photograph from 1980 of dead dogs hanging from lamp posts in downtown Lima.’

Capital Gains

Rana Dasgupta

‘The society that has emerged in post-liberalization India is one consumed both by euphoria and dread.’

Authors

Kathryn Scanlan | Notes on Craft

Kathryn Scanlan

‘I try to write a sentence as unbudging and fully itself as some object sitting on a shelf in my office.’

George Saunders and Ben Marcus In Conversation

George Saunders & Ben Marcus

‘One purpose of art is to get us to wake up, recalibrate our emotional life, get ourselves into proper relation to reality.’

Charlotte Collins | Notes on Craft

Charlotte Collins

Charlotte Collins on the craft of translation. ‘Literary translators don’t just translate the ‘meaning’ of a text; we translate the feel of it.’

Greg Jackson | First Sentence

Greg Jackson

‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’