Thursday, September 09, 2004

Granta

The distressing thing about the British publication GRANTA is that Ian Jack is originally from a working class background. He emphasized this when he took over the journal as editor in the late 1990s. Yet the kind of writers given space in the publication hasn't changed an iota-- as far as American writers go it's always the same stale establishment figures. (You know when promo material announces Susan Sontag as a "new writer," the item being promoted has serious problems.)

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