Granta 49: Money

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #49

by Bill Buford (Editor)

Get it, spend it. Save it, lose it. Risk it, win it. Lose it again, get it again. What is money? With Richard Rayner on becoming a thief; Steve Pyke’s portraits of the very rich; Jonathan Raban on the consequences of dreaming in America, and James Buchan on the psychology of money. Plus: short stories by Seamus Deane and John McGahern.

Genres: Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994

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

[Karl Ocampo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has got to be the most well-curated issue I’ve read. Like a good album, Granta is a magazine that must be read not in parts but as a whole, and in order. Every story showed a different perspective about Money. There was a piece on banks, on brokers and on unions — all discussed in vivid detail. But personally, the most compelling stories were the ones about immigrants, about the politics surrounding HIV funding, about how Africans have developed mistrust among themselves because of this powerful social construct. Overall the book was a well-rounded trip. Good job, Granta.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

julie's picks, sept. 2002, theme: Lit Mags. "Ghost Story" by Seamus Deane, paired with "Tooth and Bag" in Fence Mag

[Sara · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nope! Nooooooooope.