Granta 106 will be a special issue devoted to fiction. Look out for the best short stories of the year, extracts from the most exciting forthcoming books and an exclusive interview with critically acclaimed short-story writer Mavis Gallant by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri. Contributing authors include: Jhumpa Lahiri interviews Mavis Gallant; Eleanor Catton - Two Tides; Nicola Barker - For the exclusive attn. of Ms. Linda Wythicombe; Paul Auster - Extract from Invisible; Chris Ware - Building Stories; Helen Simpson - Sorry?; Ha Jin - In the Crossfire; Kenzaburo Oe - The Rules of Tagame (an extract); William Pierce - American Subsidiary; Xiaolu Guo - Anywhere I Lay My Head; Amy Bloom - Compassion and Mercy; Stuart Dybek - Seiche.
Author Biography
Alex Clark has worked on several national newspapers and has contributed to many publications, notably the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer and the Daily Telegraph. She was a judge of Granta s most recent Best of Young British Novelists competition and a judge of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008.
