Bill Buford Libros

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.

The book that helped define a genre: Heat is a beloved culinary classic, an adventure in the kitchen and into Italian cuisine, by Bill Buford, author of Dirt. Bill Buford was a highly acclaimed writer and editor at the New Yorker when he decided to leave for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, one of New York City’s most popular and revolutionary Italian restaurants. Finally realizing a long-held desire to learn first-hand the experience of restaurant cooking, Buford soon finds himself drowning in improperly cubed carrots and scalding pasta water on his quest to learn the tricks of the trade. His love of Italian food then propels him further afield: to Italy, to discover the secrets of pasta-making and, finally, how to properly slaughter a pig. Throughout, Buford stunningly details the complex aspects of Italian cooking and its long history, creating an engrossing and visceral narrative stuffed with insight and humor. The result is a hilarious, self-deprecating, and fantasically entertaining journey into the heart of the Italian kitchen.

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.

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.