Granta Winter 2014: Do You Remember - Brossura

'Granta is not for the sluggish of mind or conventional of expectation. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography bump and rub and jostle inside each issue, and sometimes you're not quite sure what you're reading until you've finished it - if then. The mystery is part of the excitement' Chicago Tribune --.

'Another strong collection of fiction, true stories, poems and photographs... There's a lovely little fragment by Lydia Davis, the master of lovely little fragments. There's a piece by Olivia Laing about the New York artist David Wojnarowicz; it's an extremely haunting and superb piece of writing... Laing evokes the New York of the recent past beautifully' --Evening Standard

'Do You Remember offers elegant moments of retrospection in fiction and nonfiction. The most powerful piece is 'The Defeated,' an essay by Jonny Steinberg. Another highlight in this issue is 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me,' by David Gates. It's an emotionally searing short story about a musician who asks the narrator to provide him with hospice care. In 'Nudity,' Norman Rush offers a witty, ultimately poignant, memory of his adolescent sexuality' --Washington Post

'Another strong collection of fiction, true stories, poems and photographs' --Scotsman magazine

'Do You Remember offers elegant moments of retrospection in fiction and nonfiction. The most powerful piece is 'The Defeated,' an essay by Jonny Steinberg. Another highlight in this issue is 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me,' by David Gates. It's an emotionally searing short story about a musician who asks the narrator to provide him with hospice care. In 'Nudity,' Norman Rush offers a witty, ultimately poignant, memory of his adolescent sexuality' --Washington Post

Sigrid Rausing is Acting Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in the US and Bonniers in Sweden.