Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Great Regulars: Culturally, financially, and metaphorically,

we don't live in an Anglo-American world anymore, but even the best magazines--Granta included--do not fully reflect this. Look at the last ten years of Booker Prize winners and finalists. Our culture has become dangerously detached from the world at large. We need to do a better job of finding writers outside of the English language, from all parts of the world--but especially the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and call on them to tell stories, rather than sending someone from the Anglo-American world to ferry back the news.

from John Freeman: Granta: An interview with John Freeman

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