‘I really like the artificiality of fiction, even though it’s often embarrassing and clumsy to create something out of thin air’
Granta Magazine’s Luke Neima speaks to Emma Cline, author of The Girls, about being one of Granta’s 2017 Best of Young American Novelists.
They discuss the artificiality of fiction, how we view the world in our early twenties, and ‘the distance between how we think of ourselves, matched with what people are actually capable of’.
‘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.
The author of The Girls and one of our 2017 Best of Young American Novelist shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
‘He was our younger sister’s baby – her and her husband’s baby, I guess. They were young parents and excessively chill.’
Memoir by Emma Cline.
‘It was the afternoons that did it, three o’clock like a kind of death knell, the house seeming too still, too many hours of sunlight left in the day. How had Thora even started going to the chat rooms?’
‘It was only November but holiday decorations were already starting to creep into the store displays.’
Oliver Bullough on why Gary Burn's The Re-Emergence of Global Finance is the best book of 2006.
