Bill Buford is een Amerikaanse auteur en journalist. Zijn werk duikt in fascinerende en vaak gevaarlijke werelden, waarbij hij subculturen en menselijk gedrag onderzoekt met een scherpe nieuwsgierigheid. Bufords stijl wordt gekenmerkt door meeslepende reportages en het vermogen om lezers rechtstreeks naar het hart van zijn onderwerpen te transporteren. Door zijn verhalen ontrafelt hij de complexe motivaties en dynamieken die menselijke samenlevingen vormgeven.
De avonturen van een amateur-kok als keukenslaaf, chef de partie, pastamaker en leerjongen van een Dante citerende slager in Toscane - druk 2
Bill Buford gets to find out how it feels to cook in a professional kitchen. Mario Batali invites Bill to cook in his restaurant.
A collection of new writing.
An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.
This edition of Granta includes stories by Victoria Tokareva, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Christa Wolf, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis and Romsesh Gunesekera.
Why do biographies remain so popular? Granta 41 presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life'. Also in this issue is the exclusive first publication of Saul Bellow's Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son, James Atlas on Bellow's apprenticeship in Chicago, Andrew Motion on the discovery of Philip Larkin's secret Northumberland hideaway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the mysterious Frau Frida whom he first met in Vienna after the war, plus Richard Holmes, Ian Hamilton, Louise Eldrich, Lorna Sage, and Luc Sante amid the police archives of 1914 New York.
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.
'A chomping, romping, savoury tour de force: by turns hilarious, and seriously thought provoking' Simon SchamaFor most of his adult life, Bill Buford had secretly wanted to find himself in France, in a French kitchen, having mastered the art of French haute cuisine.
Granta 43 celebrates a new generation of twenty of the best new British writers. Selected by Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, John Mitchinson and Bill Buford.
Writers and photographers define what money means to them. The book includes pieces Richard Rayner, Steve Puke, Ian Hamilton, James Buchan, Kevin Jackson, Jonathon Raban, Chang-Rae Lee, Helen Epstein, Nuruddin Farah, George Plimpton, David Kynaston, Will Hutton and others.
Is it possible, by travelling to a new world, to become a new person? Jonathan Raban crossed the Atlantic by ship and, like the immigrants before him, made for America in search of a new language, a new name, a new identity. Plus: Rian Malan, Roger Garfitt, Josef Skvorecky, Paul Theroux, Patricia Highsmith, Tim O’Brien, and Patrick McGrath’s ‘A Boy’s Broadmoor’.
Featuring the fictional début of Bill Morris, set in the design department of General Motors, between New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve 1954: the year (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Dwight Eisenhower, and Edgar Hoover) when America changed. Plus: Ivan Klìma, Tracy Kidder, Eugene Richards, Louise Erdrich, Adam Mars-Jones, and Sue Halpern.
Essays and stories deal with violence in China, travel, South African architecture, the past pilgrimages, death, and fame
Auf den ersten Blick erinnern Walton Fords großformatige, detailreiche Aquarelle von Tieren an die Drucke der Illustratoren des 19. Jahrhunderts, John James Audubon und Edward Lear. Ein genauerer Blick offenbart ein komplexes und verstörend anthropomorphes Universum, voller Symbole, hinterhältiger Witze und Anspielungen auf die „operatische“ Qualität traditioneller Naturgeschichte. In diesem beeindruckenden, aber unheimlichen visuellen Universum sind Tiere und Vögel nicht bloße ästhetische Objekte, sondern dynamische Akteure in Allegorien: ein Wildtruthahn zerdrückt einen kleinen Papagei mit seiner Klaue; eine Gruppe von Affen richtet Chaos auf einem festlichen Tisch an; ein amerikanischer Büffel wird von blutigen weißen Wölfen umzingelt. In strahlendem Aquarell beeindrucken die Bilder sowohl durch ihren makellosen Realismus als auch durch ihre komplexen Erzählungen.
