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Granta: What Happened Next (The Magazine of New Writing, 99)
Granta What Happened Next - The Magazine of New Writing, 99 Author:Ian Jack (Editor) This issue of Granta is about storytelling - the stories we invent, the stories we tell about other people, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our lives. — Richard Ford: 'Stories are created. It isn't as if they're "out there' waiting in some Platonic hyper-space like unread emails. They aren't. Write... more »rs make stories up. It might be that when stories turn out to be good they then achieve a quality of inevitability, of there seeming to have been a previously existing and important space that they perfectly fill. But that isn't what's true. I'm sure of it. A story makes its own space and then fills it. Writers don't "find" stories-although some writers might say so. This to me just means they have a vocabulary that's inadequate at depicting what they actually do. They're like Hemingway-always fleeing complexity as if it were a barn fire.'
Content:
An interview with Richard Ford / Tim Adams --
Operation, remembering a friend / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --
The virgin of Esmeraldas, fiction / Nell Freudenberger --
Street pictures, photo essay / Joel Sternfeld--
Which reminded her, later; fiction / Jon McGregor --
The earth from the air, the revelation of O. G. S. Crawford / Kitty Hauser --
Tree thieves, fiction / Josh Weil --
In the country, fiction / Tessa Hadley --
Naples '04, the Camorra lives again / Roberto Saviano--
Nony and Nixi, photo essay / Nony Singh --
Wheels of progress, fiction / Gemini Wahhaj --
The crocodile lover, fiction / Helon Habila --
Whaling, the fate of the whale / Philip Hoare.« less