Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 Essays & Memoir I Am Lying Miranda Doyle ‘Findings show that the bigger the brain, the more frequent the deceit.’ Miranda Doyle on why we lie. Essays & Memoir Any Idiot Can Write a Book Nell Stevens A production company is looking for contestants to participate in a new TV show, modelled on The Apprentice. They are seeking unpublished writers who have completed a novel. . Fiction I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness Claire Vaye Watkins ‘The uncooperative cadence of the phrase my myspace page perfectly encapsulates the awkwardness of the early oughts when our story begins.’ Fiction All the Caged Things Chinelo Okparanta ‘All that thought of home gave the girl a sickly feeling, the longing of something so out of reach, something she wasn’t even sure she could any longer truly remember.’ Fiction The Anthology Karan Mahajan ‘Long before terrorism became fashionable in the West and commonplace in the East, there was a bombing at the Sovereign Center in Delhi.’ ConsolataNuala O’Connor‘Daddy always said our apples were blessed because the order lived beside us. He liked to gift crates of Egremont Russets, the sweetest of all his fruit, to the sisters.’All That Was FamiliarAbubakar Adam IbrahimThe story of two women fleeing Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria. CalorificJohn Kinsella‘They are superbly and viscerally unreal / and I feel their living drive’ Other-Dimensional Beings | Discoveries This week’s Discoveries brings you some top-notch urls from around the world wide web. From the Archive Agnes of IowaLorrie Moore‘Her mother had given her the name Agnes, believing that a good-looking woman was even more striking when her name was a homely one.’ The Speed of SpermJeffrey Eugenides‘I was born twice: once, as a baby girl, at 4.53 a.m. on a remarkably unpolluted Detroit day in 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in the offices of our family physician, Dr Arnold Philobosian, in 1976.’My PainterNicole Krauss‘My painter caught me in a moment that is somehow rare and yet not uncharacteristic.’ The RevenantEdwidge Danticat‘Doctor Berto came with a new stethoscope to check Victoria’s heart. He was shocked to learn that she had died.’IntegrationSherman Alexie‘Anonymous cries up and down the hallways. Linoleum floors swabbed with gray water. Mop smelling like old sex.’ Authors SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Julianne Pachico and Colin Barrett in ConversationJulianne Pachico and Colin Barrett debate line writing vs free writing, inherited literatures and how to give a reading. Daniel Alarcón | InterviewDaniel Alarcón & John Freeman‘Granta editor John Freeman interviews Daniel Alarcón about book piracy in Peru.’Eli Goldstone | Five Things Right NowEli Goldstone‘The closest I come to meditating is sitting in front of a tumble dryer with a dead magazine.’Gary Shteyngart | InterviewGary Shteyngart & Emily Greenhouse‘I can’t even afford to have thoughts on London, much less live or visit there.’
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