Han Kang visited the Granta offices to discuss her book Human Acts.
Han Kang, winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, came in to the Granta offices to help design the paperback cover for Human Acts. While she was here she spoke with her editor Max Porter about how book covers reflect cultures, and why she decided to write about the massacre of Gwangju. ‘It’s because of my unending question about being human.’
‘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.
