by Bill Buford · Granta Magazine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140140507
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«Granta 39: The Body» is issue 39 of the literary magazine Granta, edited by Bill Buford, published by Granta Magazine in paperback (252 pages, in English).
This issue of Granta reflects on the body as a central experience: object of desire and pain, space of appetites and sign of the passage of time and death. It brings together non-fiction and literary texts that approach it from different perspectives, with a report by Redmond O'Hanlon in the Congo announced on the cover.
It is issue 39 of the series Granta: The Magazine of New Writing; the original edition is from 1992.
Aimed at the general reader interested in the essay, literary journalism and the Granta collection.
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
