Granta Winter 2014: Do You Remember - Couverture souple

'Granta is not for the sluggish of mind or conventional of expectation. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography bump and rub and jostle inside each issue, and sometimes you're not quite sure what you're reading until you've finished it - if then. The mystery is part of the excitement' Chicago Tribune --.

'Another strong collection of fiction, true stories, poems and photographs... There's a lovely little fragment by Lydia Davis, the master of lovely little fragments. There's a piece by Olivia Laing about the New York artist David Wojnarowicz; it's an extremely haunting and superb piece of writing... Laing evokes the New York of the recent past beautifully' --Evening Standard

'Do You Remember offers elegant moments of retrospection in fiction and nonfiction. The most powerful piece is 'The Defeated,' an essay by Jonny Steinberg. Another highlight in this issue is 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me,' by David Gates. It's an emotionally searing short story about a musician who asks the narrator to provide him with hospice care. In 'Nudity,' Norman Rush offers a witty, ultimately poignant, memory of his adolescent sexuality' --Washington Post

'Another strong collection of fiction, true stories, poems and photographs' --Scotsman magazine

'Do You Remember offers elegant moments of retrospection in fiction and nonfiction. The most powerful piece is 'The Defeated,' an essay by Jonny Steinberg. Another highlight in this issue is 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me,' by David Gates. It's an emotionally searing short story about a musician who asks the narrator to provide him with hospice care. In 'Nudity,' Norman Rush offers a witty, ultimately poignant, memory of his adolescent sexuality' --Washington Post

'The weekend her father left -- left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back -- he said 'You can raise Nickie by yourself. You'll be good at it. And I had said, 'Are you on crack?' And he replied, continuing to fold a blue twill jacket, 'Yes, a little'; --Lorrie Moore 'Hey,' Paul yelled out. 'Why's everybody talking behind the patient's back?' 'Shut up, we're having sex,' she called back. She poured a cup for herself. 'He seems pretty chipper this morning.' 'Yeah, I don't know what to hope for,' I said. 'Quality, I guess. And then not too much quantity.' --David Gates 'If everything we said had been a poem, the index of first lines would have formed a pattern: 'Do you remember', 'Tell me if I remember wrong', 'There was that time', 'Wasn't it funny when' --Anne Beattie And Abeer Ayyoub, Bernard Cooper, Olivia Laing, Laura Kasischke, Thomas McGuane, Colin McAdam, Katherine Faw Morris, Melinda Moustakis, Norman Rush, Edmund White and Joy Williams