Granta 117, Autumn 2011

Overview:

  • Title: Granta 117, Autumn 2011
  • Author: Editors of Granta
  • Year: 2011
  • ISBN-10: 9781905881369
  • Publisher: Granta Publications
  • Price: £12.99
  • Pages: 256
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Granta - 2011
  • Notes:
    • States that this the Autumn 2011 issue of this bookzine of this issue's staff credit page, but as of 2013-01-25 on Amazon it states the printing date as 2011-10-25, however, the copyright paragraph on the staff credit page states that this bookzine is published in every February, May, August and November.
    • On the staff credit page this quarterly bookzine is listed as Granta, on the cover only it is listed as Granta: The Magazine of New Writing|117.
    • Special “Horror” issue.
    • The online edition has extra material. There are extra stories by Madison Smartt Bell, with an accompanying essay, Olga Tokarczuk, Bonnie Nadzam, Toby Litt, Chris Womersley, Peter Orner, Erin Fisher and Peter C. Baker according the this bookzine's website as of 2013-01-25.
    • Also on the website are additional articles by Maaza Mengiste (on the mummies of Palermo), Naomi Alderman (on the meaning of zombies), Scott Johnson, Roberto Bolaño, Stefan Merrill Block, Richard Kerridge, Patrick Ryan, Caspar Henderson, and Sharnush Parisur, plus poetry by Tomas Tranströmer, Ben Okri, Richard Meier and letters by William Burroughs.
    • Only material with some speculative content is listed.
    • All stories have a title page, then the story's illustration, then the story proper.
    • The print issue also has articles by Will Self, Tom Bamforth, Daniel Alarcón, Paul Auster, Santiago Roncagliolo and a poem by D. A. Powell.
    • Mark Doty's essay discusses Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker.
    • The art folio by Kanitta Meechubot is nine individually titled pieces printed in full color and all the pieces have some fantastic content, and is both listed on the contents page and included in the official page count.
    • Roberto Bolaño's story is translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
    • "About the Cover" is an essay told in the form of a one-page gothic flash-fiction
    • Price in America: $16.99. No Canadian pricing.