Granta 39: The Body

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #39

by Bill Buford (Editor)

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Genres: Fiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1992

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

[Jessica T. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really don't understand why more people don't read these... Giorgio Pressburger's Teeth was my favorite!!

[Lance Grabmiller · Rating 3 out of 5]

A better than average issue of Granta. Really nice blend of fiction, creative non-fiction and photography. Includes works by Redmond O'Hanlon, Abraham Verghese, Michael Dibdin, Mary Ellen Mark, Jeanette Winterson, Geoffrey Biddle, Todd McEwen, Giorgio Pressburger, Hanif Kureishi, Antonin Kratochvil, Anchee Min, John Conroy, Peregrine Hodson, Victoria Tokareva and Salman Rushdie.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Granta 39: The Body (Granta (Viking)) (1992)

[Jaymee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely pieces on the different aspects of and perspectives on the body. A mix of medicine and art.