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Freeman's: Conclusions
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Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Rachel
Khong, Louise Erdrich, and more, the tenth and final installment of
the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman's, which explores all
the ways of coming to an end Over the course of ten years,
Freeman's has introduced the English-speaking world to countless
writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to
Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working
in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last
issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of
reaching a fitting conclusion. For Sayaka Murata, keeping up with
the comings and goings of fashion and its changing emotional
landscapes can mean being left behind, while in her poem
"Amenorrhea," Julia Alvarez experiences the end of a line as
menstruation ceases. Yet sometimes an end is merely a beginning, as
Barry Lopez meditates while walking through the snowy Oregonian
landscapes. While Chinelo Okparanta's story "Fatu" confronts the
end of a relationship under the specter of new life, other writers
look towards aging as an opportunity for rebirth, such as Honorée
Fanonne Jeffers, who takes on the role of being her own elder,
comforting herself in the ways that her grandmother used to.
Finally, in his comic story "Everyone at Dinner Has a Max von Sydow
Story," Dave Eggers suggests that sometimes stories don't have neat
or clean endings--that sometimes the middle is enough. With new
writing from Sandra Cisneros, Colum McCann, Omar El Akkad, and
Mieko Kawakami, Freeman's: Conclusions is a testament to the
startling power of literature to conclude in a state of beauty,
fear, and promise.
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Rib Hillis and Eric Roberts stars in this low-budget sci-fi action
feature. An explosion at a mine in Montana inadvertently unleashes
a group of fearsome prehistoric dinosaurs that proceed to cause
havoc on the nearby town. Cowboy Val Walker (Hillis), who has
returned home to get a job and hopefully reunite with his
ex-girlfriend Sky (Casey Fitzgerald), teams up with his estranged
dad Trent (Roberts) and tries to use his rodeo skills to fight off
the giant predators before they completely destroy the town.
Evoking childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour,
poignancy, and preternatural clarity, What Possessed Me also
explores the natural world and landscapes in various parts of
England, Wales, France, and Greece. Another theme is the work of
teaching and other professions seen from the vantage points of
provider, recipient, and witness. There are salutes to writers like
Edward Thomas, Dannie Abse and Jack Gilbert who, we are told, 'put
his life into poetry.' Separate sequences celebrate years of
occasional visits to Llandaff Cathedral and its surrounding
landscape, and the delights and political revelations of a stay in
Athens. This is a book diverse in its moods and subjects but
unified by an infectious openness to the moment and to life's joys
and sorrows, and an unfolding sense of accumulating experience and
insight. It is illuminated by a recurrent sense of inspiration, of
'what possessed me.'
Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martin Espada, Kali
Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest
installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman's explores
the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that
exist alongside themOver a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin
des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock
of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the
great red-pink birds sauntered on, unphased, then "stretched amazed
and singly march into the imaginary." This encounter--so strange,
so typical of flamingos, with their fabulous posture--is also still
typical of how we interact with animals. Even as our actions
threaten their very survival, they are still symbolic, captivating
and captive, caught in a drama of our framing This issue of
Freeman's tells the story of that interaction, its costs, its
tendernesses, the mythological flex of it. From lovers in a Chiara
Barzini story, falling apart as a group of wild boars roams in
their Roman neighborhood, to the soppen emergency birth of a cow on
a Wales farm, stunningly described by Cynan Jones, no one has the
moral high ground here. Nor is this a piece of mourning. There's
wonder, humor, rage, and relief, too.Featuring pigeons, calves,
stray dogs, mascots, stolen cats, and bears, to the captive,
tortured animals who make up our food supply, powerfully described
in Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's essay, this wide-ranging
issue of Freeman's will stimulate discussion and dreams alike.
This insightful and practically-focused collection brings together
different approaches to actor training from professionals based at
universities and conservatoires in the UK, the US and Australia.
Exploring the cultural and institutional differences which affect
actor training, and analysing developments in the field today, it
addresses a range of different approaches, from Stanislavski's
System to contemporary immersive theatre. With hands-on focus from
some of the world's leading programmes, and attention paid to
ethical control, consent and safe practice, this book sees expert
tutors exploring pathways to sustainable 21st century careers.
Designed for tutors, students and practitioners, Approaches to
Actor Training examines what it means to train as an actor, what
actors-in-training can expect from their programmes of study and
how the road to professional accomplishment is mapped and
travelled.
This is the definitive practical guide to getting the most out of
your digital SLR camera, written by top working photographer, John
Freeman. Full of inspiring photography and professional tips, it is
ideal for all keen amateur photographers and those aspiring to move
over from using a traditional film SLR camera. The digital single
lens reflex (DSLR) camera is now the must-have camera for all
serious amateur photographers. Whether you already own one or are
thinking of making the move from a point-and-shoot digital camera
or a film SLR, this practical guide will provide all the help,
advice and inspiration you need. Chapters include: understanding
the DSLR system, seeing the picture, photographing landscapes,
nature, people, architecture, still life, action, getting more from
your DSLR and post-production techniques. Updates include: New
product images and updated technical information.
From Borges to Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Marias or Bolano , the
Spanish language has given us some of the 20th century's most
beloved writers. But as the reach of Spanish culture extends far
beyond Spain and Latin America, and the US tilts towards a majority
Hispanic population, the time is right to ask who and what is next
in Spanish language fiction? In this, the first translated issue of
Granta's Best of Young Novelists, a distinguished panel of six
judges looks to new writing across the Hispanophone world and asks,
'Who are the most promising novelists telling the stories from the
old and new worlds today?' Granta 113, published simultaneously in
Spain as Los mejores narradores jovenes en espanol, will showcase
the work of 20 promising new writers. Granta's previous Best Young
Novelist issues have been startlingly accurate crystal balls, by
first calling attention to the work of writers from Salman Rushdie
to Jonathan Franzen to Zadie Smith. Here, for the first time in
translation, we will again attempt to predict the stars of the
future.
For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one
of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a
rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the
election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was
the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest and
the sense of community and collective conviction felt right. But
the assaults continued - on citizens' rights and long-held
compacts, on the core principles of our culture and civilisation,
and on our language itself. Words seemed to be losing the meanings
they once had and Freeman was compelled to return to their defence.
The result is his Dictionary of the Undoing. From A to Z, 'Agitate'
to 'Zygote,' Freeman assembled the words that felt most essential,
most potent, and began to build a case for their renewed power and
authority, each word building on the last. The message that emerged
was not to retreat behind books, but to emphatically engage in the
public sphere, to redefine what it means to be a literary citizen.
With an afterword by Valeria Luiselli, Dictionary of the Undoing is
a necessary, resounding cri de coeur in defense of language,
meaning, and our ability to imagine, describe, and build a better
world.
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary
American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as
Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra
Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and
anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American
short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and
mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst
of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in
1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short
stories from all genres, including-for the first time in a
collection of this scale-science fiction, horror, and fantasy,
placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen
King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond
Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson.
Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now
editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing
work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by
Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast
the shape and texture of today's enlarging atmosphere of literary
dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter
of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff,
George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas
by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure
trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.
Over the course of ten years, Freeman's has introduced the
English-speaking world to countless writers of international import
and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also
spotlighting brilliant writers working in English, from Tommy
Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last issue, this unique literary
project ponders all the ways of reaching a fitting conclusion. For
Sayaka Murata, keeping up with the comings and goings of fashion
and its changing emotional landscapes can mean being left behind,
and in her poem 'Amenorrhea' Julia Alverez experiences the end of
the line as menopause takes hold. Yet sometimes an end is merely a
beginning, as Barry Lopez meditates while walking through the snowy
Oregonian landscapes. While Chinelo Okparanta's story 'Fatu'
confronts the end of a relationship under the spectre of new life,
other writers look towards aging as an opportunity for rebirth,
such as Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, who takes on the role of being
her own elder, comforting herself in the ways that her grandmother
used to. Finally, in his comic story 'Everyone at Dinner Has a Max
Von Sydow Story,' Dave Eggers suggests that sometimes stories don't
have neat or clean endings - that sometimes the middle is enough.
With new writing from Sandra Cisneros, Colum McCann, Omar El Akkad
and Mieko Kawakami, Freeman's: Conclusions is a testament to the
startling power of literature to conclude in a state of beauty,
fear and promise.
Barker, Barnes, Hollinghurst, Ishiguro, Mitchell, Rushdie, Smith,
Tremain, Winterson ...Long before they were household names, they
were Granta Best of Young British Novelists. With each Young
Novelist list - in 1983, 1993, and 2003 - came new ways of
witnessing the world, introductions to unforgettable characters and
mysterious and addictive voices. In 2013, thirty years after the
first collection, the magazine asked once again: which writers are
setting the bar for a new decade in British literature?
We're all seduced by the idea of going back. But can we ever trust
our memories? We return (or attempt to return) to places, friends,
lovers, missed opportunities, and versions of ourselves that no
longer exist. Or we're haunted and shaped by the fact that
returning--going back--isn't an option. Can we ever trust our
memories? In this latest issue of "Granta," writers meditate on
these essential questions from an exciting array of vantage points.
Wendell Steavenson revisits Iraq, where she follows up with the
former prisoner of war she interviewed after Saddam's fall. Owen
Sheers returns to Zimbabwe and the memories of family who lived
there, witnessing how the country has changed in the past decade.
The issue will feature new fiction by up-and-coming writer Claire
Watkins, a profound essay on Detroit by the poet Lawrence Joseph, a
photo essay on Shanghai, and startling memoirs and stories by the
best writers from around the world.
The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O
Magazine and Vogue, Freeman's: California features stunning new
work from a broad selection of writers, revealing everything that
is important and fascinating about America's most populous state.
In Freeman's: California, Lauren Markham describes how four
generations of her family have lived in and tried to manipulate the
water in one of the driest parts of the state and how water and
land means everything. Rabih Alameddine recounts becoming a
bartender in the mid-1980s as his friends began to die of AIDS.
Rachel Kushner reminisces on all the amazing cars she's owned and
their peculiar, vivid personalities. Natalie Diaz narrates the
process of making her body into a professional basketball player,
and how that assembly stalled some of the internal vulnerabilities
she'd felt as a gay native woman growing up in California. And
Elaine Castillo visits her brother in prison. Amid the raging the
forest fires plaguing California, William T. Vollmann drives to the
Carr fire and sees how fire has become the new state of normality
for California. And Jaime Cortez riffs on pulling over at a
rest-stop and smelling the fires of Paradise burning. Meanwhile
home is in transition as Karen Tei Yamashita recalls a
Japanese-American who goes to Japan after the dropping of the bomb,
writing back and forth. Reyna Grande explores how her mother fell
out of society and became a woman who collects recycling, while she
and her siblings have become model immigrants. Also featuring a
haunting ghost story from Oscar Villalon, bold new fiction from
Tommy Orange, and stunning poems from Mai Der Vang, Juan Felipe
Herrera, Maggie Millner and more, Freeman's: California assembles a
diverse list of brilliant writers.
The latest installment from "a powerful force in the literary
world" (Los Angeles Times) Freeman's turns to one of the greatest
elevating forces of life: love In a time of contentiousness and
flagrant abuse, it often feels as if our world is run on hate.
Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and
most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed
series, Freeman's Love asks this question, bringing together
literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange, Anne Carson, Louise
Erdrich, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging
writers such as Gunnhild Oyehaug and Semezdin Mehmedinovic.
Mehmedinovic contributes a breathtaking book-length essay on the
aftermath of his wife's stroke, describing how the two reassembled
their lives outside their home country of Bosnia. Richard Russo's
charming and painful "Good People" introduces us to two sets of
married professors who have been together for decades, and for whom
love still exists, but between the wrong pair. Haruki Murakami
tells the tale of a one-night stand that feels like a dying sun.
Together, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the
complexities of love, tracing it from its earliest stirrings, to
the forbidden places where it emerges against reason, to loss so
deep it changes the color of perception. In a time when we need it
the most, this issue promises what only love can bring: a solace of
complexity and warmth.
How long is the shadow of a battle, an explosion, a revolution?
What stories arise in the wake of devastation? This issue explores
the complicated aftermath and legacy of conflict. Lindsey Hilsum
returns to Rwanda two decades after witnessing the beginning of
genocide. Patrick French writes of a great-uncle whose heroism in
World War I left behind a 'saturating cult of remembrance'. From
air-raid drills in Paul Auster's America to a calf with a broken
foot in Herta Muller's Rumania, this is how we live after the war.
With new writing by Aminatta Forna, Romesh Gunesekera, A.L.
Kennedy, Hari Kunzru, Yiyun Li, Thomas McGuane, poetry by Jean-Paul
de Dadelsen, Ange Mlinko and Rowan Ricardo Phillips and photography
by Dave Heath and Justin Jin.
In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult
socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances
and negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is
still perceived as being bound by tradition and class structures.
With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography and art, Granta's
Britain explores landscape, identities and stories of the British
Isles. In 'Silt', Robert Macfarlane writes of the beauty and danger
of a stretch of coastline in Essex. Nobel laureate Mario Vargas
Llosa tells the story of Irish revolutionary nationalist Roger
Casement, executed at Pentonville Prison in 1916. Memoirs by Gary
Younge, Andrea Stuart and Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada
focus on the upheavals and migrations that brought them and their
families to (and from) Britain. Rachel Seiffert, Ross Raisin, Cynan
Jones and Jim Crace provide extracts of their new novels: Seiffert
describes Glasgow and Northern Ireland in the 1990s; Raisin paints
a portrait of a young footballer struggling with his identity;
Jones follows a boy on a strange, dangerous outing with his father;
Crace shows how the lives of English farmers changed during the
Enclosures in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The issue includes
original short fiction by Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Tania James and
Jon McGregor as well as poems by Simon Armitage, Jamie McKendrick,
Don Paterson and Robin Robertson. It also introduces a new voice,
Sam Byers, with an extract from his darkly comic debut novel,
Idiopathy.
Be it a wrong turn, a bad relationship, a debilitating illness or a
war, every action creates a reaction, every move is followed by
another move. How do we get out of what we've gotten ourselves
into? Granta 118 zooms in close on the phenomenon of the exit
strategy. In a new story, Alice Munro writes of an elderly woman
whose attempts to care for her husband are undermined by her own
deteriorating thought processes; Claire Messud searches for her
father's past in Beirut, Lebanon as he lays dying in a hospital in
the US; and Aleksandar Hemon remembers the importance of smuggling
his family's dog out of war-torn Sarajevo. Exit Strategies also
features new writing by John Barth, Gish Jen, Ann Beattie, and
newcomer Chinelo Okparanta - examining how we get ourselves out and
the repercussions that follow. Hindsight is 20/20, but it's what we
do moving forward that defines us and - in the best of all worlds -
redeems us.
Ten years later, where are we looking? How do we see things
differently? From Ground Zero to Kampala to London to Mumbai, the
echoes are still heard, the impact is still felt. The way we
interact, the way we travel, our relationship to media and
technology, and the very way we regard the world we live in have
all been irrevocably changed. Granta 116 will examine the
consequences of the attacks that occurred on 11 September 2001 from
a global perspective. Rather than recounting where we were when it
happened and what we saw, this issue will look at how our lives and
viewpoints have been altered since that day. Declan Walsh reports
from the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan: breeding ground for Al
Qaeda and target of U.S. drone strikes. Elliott Woods travels
across the US, talking to recruits, noncombatants and veterans and
taking the pulse of a nation a decade at war. Pico Iyer considers
what air travel is like in the post-9/11 security state; Nicole
Krauss writes a melancholy, impressionistic portrait of family,
war, life and death in Paris. Adam Johnson and Nuruddin Farah
provide extracts from forthcoming novels: in Johnson's, the 'third
mate' on a North Korean fishing trawler listens in on mysterious
radio transmissions; in Farah's, a father pleads with a Somali
warlord for help finding his runaway son. Showcasing some of the
most insightful essayists, fiction writers, poets and visual
artists working today, Ten Years Later will explore the complexity
of how we regard an event that forever shifted our conceptions of
fear, anger and hope.
A writer chronicles the surrender of her body to MS; a woman
running a substance-abuse clinic faces challenges from clients,
donors and her own past; two brothers fix up a house - but can't
quite fix the aging parents who will live in it. From the chalky
horse-pills of faceless pharmaceutical conglomerates to the hot
toddy that was Grandmother's remedy for bruised knees, broken
hearts and everything besides - here are stories about the ways we
face our ailments and the ways we seek to cure ourselves.
Since Granta's inaugural list of the Best of Young British
Novelists in 1983 - featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes - the Best of Young issues
have been some of the magazine's most influential. In 2010, Granta
looked beyond the English-speaking world with Best of Young
Spanish-Language Novelists. Now, with its first-ever issue fully
translated in partnership with Granta em Portugues, the magazine
continues its work of celebrating emerging talent from around the
world.
Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a
provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits
a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta,
at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert
Macfarlane explores the limestone underworld beneath the Peak
District. And Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the
aftermath of the 1995 earthquake. In this issue - which includes
poems by Charles Simic and Ellen Bryant Voigt, a story by Miroslav
Penkov and non-fiction by David Searcy, Teju Cole and Hector Abad -
Granta presents a panoramic view of our shared landscape and
investigates our motivations for exploring it. '
In a world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of
rehearsing evacuations, and one man's rehearsal involves leaving
his parents behind. A firespotter knows all too well that where
there's smoke, there's fire - but fails to spot the blaze that
consumes half her family. Then there's the Custer impersonator who
takes his role in a re-enactment too literally, and too far. And
the massage therapist struggling to help a veteran whose biggest
regret is tattooed across his back. With award-winning reportage,
memoir, fiction and photography, Granta has illuminated the most
complex issues of modern life through the refractory light of
literature. Feel the sting of betrayal via new writing by Ben
Marcus, Janine di Giovanni, Samantha Harvey, Colin Robinson,
Jennifer Vanderbes, Callan Wink, John Burnside, Andre Aciman and
more.
All forms of horror - whether they begin in fright or disgust -
involve an extraordinary confrontation. A surprise. In essays,
reporting and short fiction, this issue of Granta will reveal the
many ways we can be startled into horror.
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