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Celebrity By:Ian Jack Published on 2002-09 by Granta Books Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. This issue of Granta includes: Jason Cowley on the search for Hitler's doctor; Kyle Stone on how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary ('GO HOME BILLARY!'); Riccardo Orizio on the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic; Fintan O'Toole on how an Irish republican looks at the Queen; Andrew Martin on the roller-coaster champion of the world; and Dragisa Blanusa on eighty-nine days with Slobodan Milosevic. New fiction by Geoff Dyer (gets high in Amsterdam); Zoe Heller (gets lonely in North London); and Andrew O'Hagan (tells how a child star was born). Photography in this issue includes work by Tom Stoddart (the African evangelist who claims he can cure AIDS) and Michael Collins (Mrs. Haggarty meets George Best and Miss Barwell meets Steve McQueen). “Granta’s contributors constitute an impos...

South and West By:Joan Didion Published on 2017-03-07 by Vintage From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention. She writes about the stifling heat, the almost viscous pace of life, the sulfurous light, and the preoccupation with race, class, and heritage she finds in the small towns they pass through. And from a different notebook: th...

Caca Dolce By:Chelsea Martin Published on 2017-08-15 by Catapult For anyone who has ever felt weird or poor or misunderstood or just . . . weird, well, this is the book for you. Martin chronicles her own bizarre upbringing in such a way that the strangeness of it all manages to still feel universal. She recounts everything from her attempt to manifest an alien invasion (she was just 11; what 11-year-old doesn't want E.T. to visit?) to the fights she had with her family, to what it was like to be diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome as an adolescent. It's a wild ride of a memoir, and a true glimpse into the mind of an artist as she's figuring out what life is all about. Kristin Iversen, Nylon Funny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martins coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a ...