Pete de Bolla
Peter de Bolla is Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are The Fourth of July and the Founding of America and Aesthetics and the Work of Art co-edited with Stefan Uhlig. In 1979, De Bolla and Bill Buford transformed Granta from a student publication to the literary quarterly it remains today.
Pete de Bolla on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | Issue 2
Prose Feature: John Barth
Bill Buford & Pete de Bolla
‘Barth is the comedian of forms, the controlled anarchist who deals realities, roles and fictions like playing cards, inventing – as in a game – an endless succession of names for the world.’
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.’
