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← Back to all issuesGranta 46: Crime
Winter 1993
An issue devoted to criminal behavior, a testimony to deviance. James Ellroy on the dark, sexed-up world of L.A. in the 50’s; Allan Gurganus on necrophilia; the stories of two murderers – told by the murderers themselves; Paul Auster, Italo Calvino, and Tibor Fischer.
From this Issue
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Dick Contino’s Blues
James Ellroy
‘June 22, 1958. Dig, hepcats: it’s me, five minutes after the fuzz told me my mother had been murdered.’
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Hard Man
Hugh Collins
‘My da, I say, is the famous Wullie Collins. He's the Robin Hood of Scotland. He takes from the rich and gives money to the poor. My da’s a bank robber.’
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Blind Rage
Henry John Reid
‘I was born in Dundee on 3 April 1951, of a mother who was not meant to bear more children and a father who had long before disappeared.’
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Glasgow Victim
Hugh Barnes
‘I went to Glasgow to live out a fantasy. Its fluid, inconstant, nerve-wrung landscape had a claim upon my imagination.’
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Crime in the City
Andrew Savulich
Andrew Savulich’s photographs of crime in New York City for Granta 46: Crime.
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The Penitenitary
Tim Willocks
‘A million man-years of confinement had burnished the surface of the granite flags to a greasy smoothness ingrained deeply with filth and despair.’
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Local Man has Sex with Corpse
Allan Gurganus
‘RALEIGH–A former funeral home employee charged with having sex with a body he was transporting pleaded guilty Wednesday after a psychiatrist testified that the man had sexual problems and that the incident probably was an isolated one.’
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The Getaway Lunch
Tibor Fischer
‘I found a seedy hotel not far from the station, where you would expect to find one.’
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The Black Sheep
Italo Calvino
‘And then one day–nobody knows how–an honest man appeared.’
