Josie Mitchell

The poetry world is abuzz this week in the wake of a controversial essay published in PN Review by British poet Rebecca Watts, denigrating a new generation of ‘amateur’ poets.

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Equal Recognition | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

In an article for the LA Review of Books, Deborah Smith discusses the politics of literary translation and the backlash she received after winning the Man Booker International Prize.

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Doubling and Redoubling | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Photographs, e-fiction and daylight saving time. Our favourite pieces published elsewhere this week.

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Andrés Barba on Such Small Hands

Andrés Barba & Josie Mitchell

Granta’s Josie Mitchell talked to Andrés Barba about his new book, Such Small Hands, Gothic and Greek Literature, and how he approaches writing from a child's perspective.

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Reign of Trauma | Discoveries

Eleanor Chandler & Josie Mitchell

A round-up of our favourite essays, stories and videos published elsewhere.

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Grinning Inanity | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

This week – deconstructing Percy Pig, the middle-class gummy bear, and celebrating Philip Pullman, who has finally written another book.

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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’

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Tech Sociopaths | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

A round-up of great writing from around the web – links from the Granta editors.

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Jesse Ball | Interview

Jesse Ball & Josie Mitchell

‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’

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Godzilla and Sadism | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Godzilla, Kathy Acker, Roald Dahl, Frank Bidart and a tribute to John Ashbery in this week's Discoveries – a round-up of writing by the Granta editors.

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Esmé Weijun Wang | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Esmé Weijun Wang & Josie Mitchell

‘I really love Southern Gothic literature and so part of me was like – well, what if I could create an Immigrant Gothic?’

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Anthony Marra | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Anthony Marra & Josie Mitchell

‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’

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Karan Mahajan | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Karan Mahajan & Josie Mitchell

‘The through line in my work that I see is how easily we can turn people into the other’

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Jen George | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Jen George & Josie Mitchell

Jen George shares her process of translating visual art into text

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Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker

Chris Kraus & Josie Mitchell

Chris Kraus discusses her new biography, After Kathy Acker, which looks at the life and work of the artist twenty years after her death.

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Would You Care to Enlarge on That? | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Once a fortnight, we make a shameless plea for your elusive attention by sharing our favourite links from across the web.

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Speed Dating the Man Booker Longlist | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

The Man Booker longlist 2017 has been announced. We’ve put together a speed dating session, introducing you to the work of all thirteen novelists.

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People Who Have Met Drake | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Discoveries – cool stuff we found online. Featuring Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Curtis and more.

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Andrea Stuart In Conversation | Podcast

Andrea Stuart & Josie Mitchell

Josie Mitchell talks to Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They discuss the value of feminist porn, the importance of counter narratives and the challenges faced by feminist pornographers.

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Solar Stasis | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

A cluster of links from across the world wide web, feat. Anthony Lane, Claudia Rankine, David Grossman and more.

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Cyclical Wisdom | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

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Other-Dimensional Beings | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

This week’s Discoveries brings you some top-notch urls from around the world wide web.

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The Hatchet Job | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

This week's Discoveries celebrates the brutal literary tradition of the hatchet job.

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International Women’s Day 2017

Josie Mitchell

‘We want to share with you some of our favourite pieces – published by us and by others – that present clear-headed explorations of gender in our society’

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You’ve Got Mail | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

A collection of fan mail, featuring correspondents James Joyce, Henrik Ibsen, Anthony Burgess, Shirley Jackson and more.

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This is the Way the World Ends | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

‘How will the world end? Virus, war, natural disaster, Donald Trump in the library with the candlestick?’

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Manifestos | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

A collection of revolutionary writings and manifestos from Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles, Nelson Mandela, James Baldwin and Occupy Wall Street

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Best Book of 1955: The Magician’s Nephew

Josie Mitchell

‘Much like Tolkien’s, admittedly vaster, legendarium, Lewis’s world is exquisitely conceived.’

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Here Be Dragons | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

A round-up of maps, literary, diagrammatic, chaotic and specific. Maps of London, maps of literature, maps of maps.

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Polymorphous Perversity | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

New erotica from Anaïs Nin; Emily Dickinson’s bedroom; Isaac Asimov’s dystopias, interracial love circa 1963 and more.

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The Fall of Rome | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Word of the Year 2016: Post-Truth; Don DeLillo on the enemy in the White House; Leonard Cohen, the novelist; Ariel Levy’s Thanksgiving in Mongolia.

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The Very Ecstasy of Love | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Zadie on Beyoncé, Didion on diarists, Bureaucracy as Sadism, How Did They Win that prize? and more.

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Werewoolf? | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Sylvia Plath’s sass, Bob Dylan spars with Leonard Cohen, Guillermo del Toro talks vampires, Shirley Jackson scares the baby boomers

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Thomas Pynchon Found! | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

The politics of outing writers with pseudonyms, the power of Nell Zink’s first sentences, and Trump fiction.

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The Unknown Known | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

A round-up of things we love, from all over the internet.

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Who are the Campbells? | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Our latest discoveries from the literary internet, from the new selfishness epidemic to artistic theft.