American wild
By: 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
Series: Granta -- 128; Granta -- 128.
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781905881819
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Literature; Collections; Photojournalism; American literature; Pictorial works; Modern Literature
Description: 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.
Notes: 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.

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Table of contents: title: Self-Portrait / Martin Amis; title: Krapp Hour / Anne Carson; title: The Mast Year / Diane Cook; title: Thing with Feathers that Perches in the Soul / Anthony Doerr; title: Grandma and Me / Thomas McGuane; title: A Meeting of Minds with Henry David Thoreau / Andrew Motion; title: River So Close / Melinda Moustakis; title: Chasing Wolves in the American West / Adam Nicolson; title: A Confession / Jess Row; title: Beyond Sunset / Mary Ruefle; title: Holiday / Mona Simpson; title: The Fighters / David Treuer; title: Mirage / Claire Vaye Watkins; title: Exotics / Callan Wink