Salman Rushdie, Richard Russo, Elizabeth McCracken and A.L. Kennedy gave readings and then spoke with Granta editor John Freeman about the magazine and their contributions to it through the years.
On Monday 12 July, Granta 111: Going Back and the online archive launched at the British Library. Salman Rushdie, Richard Russo, Elizabeth McCracken and A.L. Kennedy gave readings and then spoke with Granta editor John Freeman about the magazine and their contributions to it through the years. Watch a video of the readings and the discussion below.
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
