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Bill Buford

Bill Buford was for sixteen years the editor of Granta magazine, which he relaunched in 1979. Previously he was the fiction editor at The New Yorker, where he now works as a staff writer. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Travel, The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of the Family. He is also the author of Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.

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A Literature for Politics: Introduction

Bill Buford

‘‘A Literature for Politics' is dedicated to a different set of possibilities - the possibilities of political engagement.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

From the archive

Bill Buford

The End of the English Novel In 1980 the English novel seemed to Bill Buford,...

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In Conversation | The Online Edition padlock

Interview with Ryszard Kapuściński

Bill Buford & Ryszard Kapuściński

‘Mine is not a vocation, it's a mission.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Editorial

Bill Buford

‘The twentieth century has tolerated a number of mythologies about the role of the writer, and one of the most commonplace is the writer as inspired genius.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Editorial

Bill Buford

‘Certainly the most obvious attraction of travel writing is in what it represents: escape.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Editorial

Bill Buford

‘A new fiction seems to be emerging from America, and it is a fiction of a peculiar and haunting kind.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Introduction: The End of the English Novel

Bill Buford

‘The novel has always smacked of inadequacies.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Prose Feature: John Barth

Bill Buford & Pete de Bolla

Barth is the comedian of forms, the controlled anarchist who deals realities, roles and fictions like playing cards, inventing – as in a game – an endless succession of names for the world.

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

New American Writing: Introduction

Bill Buford & Pete de Bolla

‘It is increasingly a discomforting commonplace that today’s British novel is neither remarkable nor remarkably interesting.’

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