![]() ![]() ![]() And while I have only skimmed through most, they are, all of them, a reassuring sight. But does any editor? The wall of my sitting room at home is taken up almost exclusively with literary magazines. Why, then, do you believe Granta is a business? Do you have any idea?’ This clearly is not the reason you started Granta. ![]() Why edit a literary magazine in the first place? The question was one of the first ones put to me by our first accountant, who – our dark balance sheet spread across the table of the pub – patiently explained why businesses exist: ‘So that,’ he said, ‘the people who own them can make money from them. The editor stays with the ship until – well, until it goes down (which, finally, it always seems to do). No one edits a literary magazine because it’s a good job. Even now, the logic implicit in that ordinary, adult statement – I, an employee of a publishing company, resigned from my position in it – seems to me inadmissible, if only because I find it impossible to think of Granta as a place of work. Three months ago, I did a thing that, for a long time, I had regarded as inconceivable: I resigned from Granta. ![]()
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