Tom Bolger
Managing Editor, Granta Magazine
I am the Managing Editor at Granta magazine, looking after all aspects of its production. I can also be found reviewing and revising submissions. Books I always give to friends, who often steal them, include: The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham), Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Gay Talese), Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), Hurricane Season (Fernanda Melchor), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver), The Will to Change (bell hooks), The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe), Tales from Ovid (Ted Hughes), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Muriel Spark), Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey), Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders). Some wonderful – and recent – books from Granta’s backlist: When I Sing, Mountains Dance (Irene Solà), My Phantoms (Gwendoline Riley), Kairos (Jenny Erpenbeck), Acting Class (Nick Drnaso), The Collection (Nina Leger), Heritage Aesthetics (Anthony Anaxagorou).
