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Rachel B. Glaser | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Rachel B. Glaser & Luke Neima
'If you can surprise yourself with your writing then it’s a lot more fun, and it’s a lot more interesting. That often involves creating characters you’ve never met or writing people that are not like you.’
Prozac Culture
Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon on the Prozac craze of the 90s, and his experience taking the infamous antidepressant.
Yaa Gyasi | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Yaa Gyasi & Luke Neima
‘Place is something I'm fascinated by and how it shapes you in ways that are really hard to see and imagine’
Claire Vaye Watkins | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Claire Vaye Watkins & Josie Mitchell
‘Even in fiction, a writer's job is to tell the truth’
Getting Away With It
Timothy Phillips
A case of Russian espionage from Tim Phillips' book The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age.
Jillian Weise | Five Things Right Now
Jillian Weise
Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Monsterhuman
Kjersti Skomsvold
‘Waking is now worse than falling asleep, I didn’t think that was possible.’ Translated from the Norwegian by Becky L. Crook.
Two Poems
Dara Wier
‘here we come / with our living // fruit baskets and / soon to wilt white flowers’
The Survivals of Lafcadio Hearn
Kenny Fries
‘Did Hearn feel comfortable in Japan because being a foreigner overshadowed his physical difference?’
Stillness | State of Mind
Eoghan Walls
‘It is half twelve and I am labouring over the word Stillen. My laptop is open on the coffee table, pushed up against baby wipes and a row of empties.’
Discipline
Geeta Tewari
‘Your virginity guarantees your happiness, my mother had explained numerous times.’ New fiction from Geeta Tewari.
Out of the Cell
Pico Iyer
‘I was inside a silence that was not an absence of noise so much as the living presence of everything I habitually walked – or sleep-walked – past.’
Garth Risk Hallberg | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Garth Risk Hallberg & Luke Neima
‘I am very interested in the question of reality on the one hand and imagination on the other, so the mirror has to be angled slightly to take in something that isn’t already there’
Jesse Ball | Interview
Jesse Ball
‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’
Water, Water, Everywhere
Darrell Hartman
Darrell Hartman on water: from diving to climate change, hurricanes Irma and Harvey to the advent of ‘Blue Mind’.
Blameless
Claudio Magris
‘People think they’re destroying, but it’s hard work, nearly impossible; building is easy, illusory but easy.’
Second Mother
Sinéad Gleeson
‘The cortex shrinks where the cells used to be. The spaces in between expand. Islands in the sea of the mind. An archipelago of the former self.’ Sinéad Gleeson on Alzheimer's disease.
If Mother’s Happy
Kathleen McCaul Moura
‘Towards the end of my pregnancy, like many women, my emotions were taut, stretched thin like the skin round my middle.’
Esmé Weijun Wang | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Esmé Weijun Wang
‘I really love Southern Gothic literature and so part of me was like – well, what if I could create an Immigrant Gothic?’
The Fashion of Kathy Acker
Chris Kraus
An extract from Chris Kraus’s new biography, After Kathy Acker.
Emma Cline | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Emma Cline & Luke Neima
‘I really like the artificiality of fiction, even though it’s often embarrassing and clumsy to create something out of thin air’
Greg Jackson | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Greg Jackson & Luke Neima
‘A lot of writing is confronting your own failure, again and again and again’
Anthony Marra | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Anthony Marra
‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’
