Granta 100th issue
So excited! Granta's 100th issue will have the following writers, and it'll be having poems, as well! Out early next month, so I'll be anxiously watching out for the postman.
William Boyd, Introduction
Jayne Anne Phillips, Solly and Lark
Harold Pinter, Poem
James Fenton, On Buying a Clavichord
Craig Raine, How Snow Falls
Hanif Kureishi, Something to Tell You
Mario Vargas Llosa, Three Character Sketches
Jamie McKendrick, From the Flood Plain
Helen Simpson, In-flight Entertainment
Alice Oswald, Eel Tail
Ian Jack, The Serampur Scotch
Ian McEwan, For You
Martin Amis, The Unknown Known
Bruce Frankel, Turn of the Century
Lucy Eyre, Human Safari
Alan Hollinghurst, Highlights
Ashley Capps, Jewelweed
Doris Lessing, Chicken and Eggs
Michael Hofmann, End of the Pier Show
Isabel Hilton, Greenland
Tash Aw, To the City
Don Paterson, The Swing
Salman Rushdie, Heraclitus
Nicholas Shakespeare, The White Hole of Bombay
Lavinia Greenlaw, The Joy of Difficulty
Ingo Schulze, Estonia, Out in the Country
Oliver Reynolds, 17 Melbourne Road
Julian Barnes, Marriage Lines
A. M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
Helen Oyeyemi, pie-kah
Derek Mahon, Somewhere the Wave