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Granta 166: Generations Online
Generation Gap
‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
Generation Gap
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
Generation Gap
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
Generation Gap
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
Generation Gap
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Paul Auster
Paul Auster is the author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. 'You Remember the Planes' in Granta 125: After the War, is adapted from Report from the Interior, published in November by Faber & Faber in the UK, Henry Holt in the US and McClelland & Stewart in Canada.
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