Granta 20: In Trouble Again: A Special Issue of Travel Writing

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #20

by Bill Buford (Editor)

Redmond O’Hanlon in the Amazon jungle, Salman Rushdie in Nicaragua, Colin Thubron in China, Ryszard Kapuscinski in Angola, Martha Gellhorn in Cuba, Peregrine Hodson in Afghanistan. Plus: Amitav Ghosh, Norman Lewis, Timothy Garton Ash, Hanif Kureishi, and Orville Schell.

Genres: Travel, Essays

252 pages, Paperback

First published March 3, 1987

About the author

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".

Reviews

[Babs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good - varied styles, subjects, approaches and of course places. If you are hesitating about making that round the world trip with only a rucksack and a packet of Dioralyte this will get you leaping off the sofa and pulling the plug from your telly in no time. It was a touch disconcerting that there were rather a few double-barrelled names, a Peregrine, and only one of the twelve writers was a woman, but it was published in 1986. Also of course very interesting to read the pieces reporting on Afghanistan, Pakistan and US development policies 25 years on. Not only intrepid explorers but also very good writers.