American wild / publisher and editor Sigrid Rausing ; contributors Martin Amis, Anne Carson, Diane Cook, Anthony Doerr, Aaron Huey, Nicola Lo Calzo, Thoma McGuane, Andrew Motion, Melinda Moustakis, Adam Nicolson, Prince Ofori-Atta, Jess Row, Mary Ruefle, Mona Simpson, David Treuer, Claire Vaye Watkins, Callan Wink.
Includes photoessay, "Casta," by Nicola Lo Calzo, a research documentary project on the racialized geography of Louisiana. Includes photoessay, "Mitakuye Oyasin," by Aaron Huey, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Cover title.
Contents:
Introduction. Self-portrait / Martin Amis. Mona Simpson -- Exotics / Callan Wink -- River so close / Melinda Moustakis -- Fighters / David Treuer -- Confession / Jess Row -- Casta / Nicola Lo Calzo -- Meeting of minds with Henry David Thoreau / Andrew Motion -- Chasing wolves in the American west / Adam Nicolson -- Mitakuye Oyasin / Aaron Huey -- Beyond sunset / Mary Ruefle -- Grandma and me / Thomas McGuane -- Krapp hour / Anne Carson -- Mast year / Diane Cook -- Mirage / Claire Vaye Watkins -- Holiday / Mona Simpson -- Self-portrait / Martin Amis.
Summary:
American Wild: it can kill you, or exhilarate you. It's always there, a character in its own right in the great unfolding narrative of American writing. This issue of Granta is dedicated to stories of the wild, from MELINDA MOUSTAKIS on gutting fish in Alaska to CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS on a lost child in a dystopian California. Also: ANTHONY DOERR on a family of pioneers in Idaho, ADAM NICOLSON on tracking wolves in New Mexico and DAVID TREUER on cage fighting and his Ojibwe heritage.
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