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John Freeman (Editor)
Granta Publications 2009
Another strong issue of Granta, John Freeman’s first as permanent, rather than acting, editor. The overall theme of the collection is, apparently, work. How each piece fits under that broad heading isn’t always clear , but it doesn’t really matter. Instead, we have the usual mixed bag of good writing about things I hadn’t thought about before: book pirating in Peru, the history of robotics, trauma as a cause of blindness, Johannesburg’s Ponte City development – and memoir: a moving piece by Colum McCann about his father, a Dublin journalist; Yiyun Li’s account of her unorthodox self-schooling in China; Aminatta Forna’s experiences with vets and dogs in Freetown. There’s much else here too. As is often the case, it is the fiction which appealed less to me, although Brad Watson’s short story about childhood in the South is a fine exception.
7th February 2010
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