Granta 33: What Went Wrong?

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #33

by Bill Buford (Editor)

This edition of Granta includes stories by Victoria Tokareva, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Christa Wolf, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis and Romsesh Gunesekera.

Genres: Nonfiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

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

[Katie]

The best in this volume were:

"In Romania" - William McPherson
"Europe in Ruins" - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

These were also nice:

"Gift for a Sweetheart" - Isabel Allende
"Summers with Juliet" - Bill Roorbach

Another nicety was the way in which I came across this volume: on one of those rolling carts outside of a coffee shop in Kilauea, Kaua'i from which one takes a book and then leaves a dollar or two for charity. I was quite interested in Romania at the time and pleased to see it mentioned on the cover. I traded "If on a winter's night a traveler" for this and that was gone within a few hours.