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Jekwu Anyaegbuna | Interview
Jekwu Anyaegbuna
‘I think it would be counterproductive for me to think too much about readers while producing a piece of fiction because the enjoyment of it varies from one person to another – and it’s impossible to satisfy everybody.’
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.’
John Barth | Interview
John Barth
‘Everything we do in art is likely to turn out to be either prophecy or exorcism, whatever its other intentions.’
NoViolet Bulawayo | Interview
NoViolet Bulawayo
‘My love affair with books had turned into a marriage.’
David Godine | Interview
Eric Burns
‘David R. Godine is a respected, adventurous, outspoken publisher and a soi-disant cultural elitist.’
Peter Carey | Interview
Peter Carey
Peter Carey on Alexis de Tocqueville, writing fiction and the inspiration for his forthcoming novel.
Eleanor Catton | Interview
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton, author of the critically acclaimed, Betty Trask-award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, talks to Granta.
The Man from Hiroshima
Maurizio Chierici
‘Then the explosion stunned me momentarily. Hiroshima disappeared under a yellow cloud. No one spoke after that.’
The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz
Evelyn Ch’ien
‘The world tends to give us pieces, and then in our imagination, because of our desire and because of our need, we make them whole.’
Interview
Teju Cole
‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’