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Granta

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September 01, 1979 in Cambridge, The United Kingdom

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http://www.granta.com/

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Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Granta magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, student badinage and student literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. In this original incarnation it had a long and distinguished history, publishing the early work of many writers who later became well known, including A. A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. During the 1970s, it ran into trouble – dwindling money, mounting apathy – from which it was rescued by a small group of postgraduates who successfully and surprisingly relaunched it as a magazine of new writing, with both writers and their audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge.

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Letters From Two Exit Strategists

Vanessa Manko, Jacob Newberry

Jacob Newberry's 'Summer' and Vanessa Manko's 'The Interrogation' both feature in the new issue of Granta, Exit Strategies. Here the two contributors discuss the resilience of the natural world, the dangers of submitting to categorisation and ways of escape.

Illustration by Michael Salu from 'The Interrogation...

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Books by Granta

Average rating: 3.75 · 1,637 ratings · 211 reviews · 124 distinct works

	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story by Granta, Richard Ford (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2 by Granta, Ian Jack (Editor) 3.66 avg rating — 88 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Granta Book of the American Short Story by Granta, Richard Ford (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 88 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Granta 108: Chicago by Granta, John Freeman (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Granta 109: Work by Granta, John Freeman (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Granta 111: Going Back by Granta, John Freeman (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Granta 100 by Granta, William Boyd (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Granta 77: What We Think of America by Granta, Ian Jack (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists 2003 by Granta, Ian Jack (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Granta 101 by Granta, Jason Cowley (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: