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Ian Jack on an IRA incident in Gibraltar. Includes a Martin Amis story as well as Raymond Carver, John Berger, Angela Carter, Nik Cohn, Don DeLillo, Todd McEwen.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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Bill Buford

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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".

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Granta 25: The Murderee by Martin Amis (1989)
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From this collection I read Angela Carter's rewriting/imagining of John Fforde's play Tis Pity She's a Whore
{read in april, 2016}
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