Bill Buford Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Auf den ersten Blick erinnern Walton Fords großformatige, detailreiche Aquarelle von Tieren an die Drucke der Illustratoren des 19. Jahrhunderts, John James Audubon und Edward Lear. Ein genauerer Blick offenbart ein komplexes und verstörend anthropomorphes Universum, voller Symbole, hinterhältiger Witze und Anspielungen auf die „operatische“ Qualität traditioneller Naturgeschichte. In diesem beeindruckenden, aber unheimlichen visuellen Universum sind Tiere und Vögel nicht bloße ästhetische Objekte, sondern dynamische Akteure in Allegorien: ein Wildtruthahn zerdrückt einen kleinen Papagei mit seiner Klaue; eine Gruppe von Affen richtet Chaos auf einem festlichen Tisch an; ein amerikanischer Büffel wird von blutigen weißen Wölfen umzingelt. In strahlendem Aquarell beeindrucken die Bilder sowohl durch ihren makellosen Realismus als auch durch ihre komplexen Erzählungen.

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon’s best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.

Featuring the fictional début of Bill Morris, set in the design department of General Motors, between New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve 1954: the year (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Dwight Eisenhower, and Edgar Hoover) when America changed. Plus: Ivan Klìma, Tracy Kidder, Eugene Richards, Louise Erdrich, Adam Mars-Jones, and Sue Halpern.

Why do biographies remain so popular? Granta 41 presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life'. Also in this issue is the exclusive first publication of Saul Bellow's Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son, James Atlas on Bellow's apprenticeship in Chicago, Andrew Motion on the discovery of Philip Larkin's secret Northumberland hideaway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the mysterious Frau Frida whom he first met in Vienna after the war, plus Richard Holmes, Ian Hamilton, Louise Eldrich, Lorna Sage, and Luc Sante amid the police archives of 1914 New York.

Bill Buford, an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook, was asked by the New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, a Falstaffian figure of voracious appetites who runs one of New York's most successful three-star restaurants. Buford accepted the commission, on the condition Batali allow him to work in his kitchen, as his slave.

Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

A collection of new writing.

Granta 43 celebrates a new generation of twenty of the best new British writers. Selected by Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, John Mitchinson and Bill Buford.

Il libro del giornalista e scrittore Bill Buford è un documento autentico della vita tra i famosi hooligan inglesi e i loro viaggi in Europa. In una solitaria stazione di periferia in Galles, Buford entra in contatto per la prima volta con un fenomeno che lo accompagnerà: diventa testimone casuale di un treno speciale pieno di tifosi di calcio urlanti, violenti e completamente fuori controllo. Successivamente, si unisce ai tifosi e accompagna gli hooligan inglesi nei loro spostamenti attraverso l'Inghilterra, in Germania e in Italia, esplorando i loro pub e discoteche, vivendo tra di loro e quasi diventando uno di loro. Le sue cronache non risparmiano il lettore: l'organizzazione delle risse, la bruttezza, l'orrore, i fiumi di birra e vodka che alimentano un'aggressività ottusa, la violenza di massa che agisce come una droga, l'escalation improvvisa, la terribile fascinazione per la violenza e la solidarietà di gruppo che colpisce anche chi non appartiene al gruppo… Buford non offre analisi sociologiche, ma una testimonianza diretta e cruda.

This edition of Granta includes stories by Victoria Tokareva, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Christa Wolf, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis and Romsesh Gunesekera.

An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Essays and stories deal with violence in China, travel, South African architecture, the past pilgrimages, death, and fame