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The latest issue of Granta is the "music" issue. Is it worth picking up?

― Tom, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps I'm revealing my ignorance, but what is Granta, Tom?

― Clarke B., Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wondered about this too, but literature and music don't go together that well. Has there ever been a worse book invoking the magic of sound than Rushdie's crappy 'Ground Beneath Her Feet? It doesn't feature Sebastian Faulks (thank Christ) so it might be worth a go.

― Snotty Moore, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Granta is a nice bulky literary quarterly, published (I think?) in London. It's bound like a softcover book and runs about $12 a pop. Each issue typically has a loose theme.

― Mark, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Any word on some of the pieces in the music issue & who the writers are? I enjoyed the New Yorker music issue, and I usually get a kick out of seeing how pubs. not used to covering music do so. Especially if it means pieces by writers who don't typically write about music.

― Mark, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm, seeing as I'll be working at a bookstore over this Xmas break, I might have to check it out..

― Clarke B., Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It would appear to be more about music in the general cultural sense than specific contemporary developments. But that's just judging from the ones they've chosen to extract on the website -- the others could very well be about Thom Yorke's big toe.

But yeah, judging from the extracts, it doesn't look likely to provide much of the Non-Music Publication Tackles Music thrill.

― Nitsuh, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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