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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Granta Is 100

posted by on January 3 at 13:19 PM

Granta’s name came from the upper part of a river in Cambridge.

It began as a student magazine began in 1889, went to sleep for a few years, and woke up in 1979 under the editorial regime of Bill Buford, who would become its longtime, Falstaffian editor. (He had some editorial partners, but nobody remembers them.)

Since then, Granta lost a lot of money and published a lot of good writing. Every publication that has ever existed grumbles about Granta’s list of contributors: Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, Milan Kundera, Susan Sontag, Jonathan Raban, Gabriel García Márquez, Ben Okri, A. L. Kennedy, Graham Greene, Zadie Smith, Sherman Alexie, et cetera.

Read the Guardian’s elegy (no matter how much it tries to sound enthusiastic about Granta today, it’s an elegy) here.

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