- Published: 12/06/2001
- ISBN: 9781862074644
- Granta Books
- 400 pages
Granta
Ian Jack
For 21 years Granta magazine has aimed to publish the best of contemporary fiction, memoir, reportage and travel writing, using a cross section of different writers to express the diversity and originality of talent. Among those to have featured in the publication include Harold Pinter, Hanif Kureishi and Martha Gellhorn. This anthology takes 21 landmark pieces from each year of the magazine, so bringing together classic pieces from its past and charting its history. An introduction by the editor of Granta, Ian Jack, puts the work in context.
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The Stinky Ocean
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‘It was a peculiar, alopecic landscape of hummocks and gullies, with patches of grass growing on what looked like white earth, and rarely a soul to be seen.’
Essays & Memoir | Granta 60
Those Who Felt Differently
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‘Could grief for one woman have caused all this? We were told so.’
On the death of Diana.
Essays & Memoir | Granta 138
Ian Jack | Is Travel Writing Dead?
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‘Travel writing of most kinds, not just the humorous, has the history of colonialism perched on its shoulder.’