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Jack will leave in June, after an issue listing the best of young American writers. So far, there is no indication who might replace him. Rausing, with her PhD in Estonian anthropology and her interest in environmental causes and “activist non-fiction”, is advertising for someone “innovative, with a passion for world literature”. Judging by Rausing’s appraisal of Bill Buford as “shockingly masculine”, the smart money may be on someone young and female.
Wait a minute, we knew plenty. And it was pretty interesting, so far as I know.
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December 11th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Buford and Jack are great editors. They made Granta the premiere literary magazine for years.
Rausing thinks Granta was “shockingly masculine”? I don’t understand the remark. Shockingly good, I’d rather say.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Buford wrote a stupid editorial once saying some ridiculous things about women writers; that’s likely where that comment came from. As for Ian Jack, the magazine went a bit downhill under him, I think, with long boring essays on trainspotting and such taking the place of good solid fiction and memoir. I think Buford was the more dynamic eye, personally.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Over the course of long careers, editors will occasionally write and do stupid things. Critics will always be on hand to point them out. Nonetheless, I think Granta was (and is) a great magazine. Most other literary journals cannot bear comparison to it.