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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
Fiction|Granta 46
Fiction|Granta 46
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.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
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.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
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.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
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.’
Art & Photography|Granta 46
Art & Photography|Granta 46
Crime in the City
Andrew Savulich
Andrew Savulich’s photographs of crime in New York City for Granta 46: Crime.
Fiction|Granta 46
Fiction|Granta 46
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.’
Fiction|Granta 46
Fiction|Granta 46
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.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
Essays & Memoir|Granta 46
Foreign Bodies
Peregrine Hodson
‘We'd reached the end of the journey: a day and a night and then home. Perhaps that was our first mistake. We forgot where we were.’
Fiction|Granta 46
Fiction|Granta 46
Dizzy
Paul Auster
‘The method's not important. The only thing that counts is that you go along with it–and that you understand why it has to be done.’
Fiction|Granta 46
Fiction|Granta 46
The Getaway Lunch
Tibor Fischer
‘I found a seedy hotel not far from the station, where you would expect to find one.’
Fiction|Granta 46
Fiction|Granta 46
The Black Sheep
Italo Calvino
‘And then one day–nobody knows how–an honest man appeared.’