Publication: Granta

  • Images of Women by Elvira Navarro

    A woman’s father tries to adjust after his wife’s death. Outwardly he’s living it up, but not so much behind closed doors. This is an excerpt from Navarro’s new book The Voices of Adriana that I’m defintely going to pick up.  In addition to ‘sweetheart’, there was the ‘This time I think I’ve found the…

  • The Ghost Coat by Catherine Lacey

    Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X is one of the best books I’ve read in recent years, and her weird, dreamlike, off-kilter prose is cranked up to 11 in this short story. I’ve read it three times; each time another section stands out to me.  The curtains caught fire and he sat there staring at me…

  • The Husband Stitch