Bill Buford
Bill Buford was for sixteen years the editor of Granta magazine, which he relaunched in 1979. Previously he was the fiction editor at The New Yorker, where he now works as a staff writer. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Travel, The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of the Family. He is also the author of Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.
Bill Buford on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Ryszard Kapuściński | Interview
Ryszard Kapuściński & Bill Buford
‘Mine is not a vocation, it's a mission.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
A Literature for Politics: Introduction
Bill Buford
‘‘A Literature for Politics' is dedicated to a different set of possibilities - the possibilities of political engagement.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 1
New American Writing: Introduction
Bill Buford & Pete de Bolla
‘It is increasingly a discomforting commonplace that today’s British novel is neither remarkable nor remarkably interesting.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 3
Introduction: The End of the English Novel
Bill Buford
‘The novel has always smacked of inadequacies.’