Threes Anna Erin Knight Peter Behrens Heda Kovály Tony Blair Paul Krugman Marie-Claire Blais James Laxer Ben Brooks Dennis Lee Lynn Coady Pasha Malla Mark Crick Heather McHugh Lynn Crosbie Ai Mi Patrick DEWitt A. F. Moritz Deyan Enev ErÍn Moure John Fraser Ted Nield John Freeman Alix Ohlin Halfdan Freihow Pasha Malla Amitav Ghosh Robin Robertson Ian Hamilton Noo Saro-Wiwa Marjorie Harris Frauke Scheunemann Christopher Hitchens Steve Sem-Sandberg Peter Hobbs Carrie Snyder Liz Hoggard Andrea Stuart Robert Hough Tomas Tranströmer Stephen Kelman Binyavanga Wainaina ANANSI GRANTA • PORTOBELLO SPRING / SUMMER 2012
Anansi_S12_cover.indd 1-2 12-01-13 10:18 AM #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SCOTT GRIFFIN Chair SARAH MACLACHLAN President & Publisher ALLAN IBARRA VP Finance THE SISTERS BROTHERS MATT WILLIAMS VP Publishing Operations BY PATRICK DEWITT MELANIE LITTLE Senior Editor, Canadian Fiction GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD WINNER JANIE YOON Senior Editor, Nonfi ction ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE WINNER JARED BLAND Managing Editor QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK KELLY JOSEPH Assistant Editor MACLEAN’S MAGAZINE BEST BOOKS MEREDITH DEES Editorial Assistant AMAZON.CA BEST BOOKS: EDITORS’ PICK TORONTO STAR REVIEWERS’ TOP 100 BOOKS ERIN MALLORY Manager, Cross-Media Group MAN BOOKER PRIZE AND SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST ALYSIA SHEWCHUK Designer and Digital Assets Coordinator LONNY KNAPP Print Production Manager PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS $22.95 978-1-77089-032-9 | EPUB $18.95 978-1-77089-027-5 LAURA REPAS Publicity Director (on leave) KATE McQUAID “Gritty . . . deadpan . . . very comedic . . . Publicist opens new doors in the imagination.” BRIDGET HAINES Publicist — New York Times Book Review FRED HORLER Marketing Manager “Bold, original, and powerfully compelling.” TRISH OSUCH Web Content Manager — Globe and Mail BARBARA HOWSON VP Sales “Yes, this is a mighty fine read, and deWitt a mighty fine writer.” — National Post ALLISON CHARLES International Sales Manager EMILY MOCKLER Sales Associate “Compulsively readable . . .” — Maclean’s EVA O’BRIEN Sales Assistant “Sheer brilliance . . .” — Chatelaine GILLIAN FIZET Rights Manager “DeWitt has refined and purified the base EVELYN CRAWFORD Rights Intern metals of black comedy and the western to produce literary gold.” — Winnipeg Free Press AMANDA LEE Data Asset Administrator MARK LUK “A terrifically spun yarn . . . masterfully Operations Manager strange and wonderful.” — Toronto Star
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Payback Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Margaret Atwood
“The lectures remind us of why Atwood has been so important to our literature.” — Financial Post
“Stimulating, learned, and stylish.” — Literary Review of Canada
“The phrasing is polished and the metaphors striking.” — The Economist 978-0-88784-810-0 Paperback $18.95 Now a feature documentary by award-winning director Jennifer Baichwal 978-0-88784-872-8 ePub $16.95
An Illustrated Short History of Progress Ronald Wright
“Meets all our needs and then some; It’s smart, downright gorgeous . . . Bravo.” — Toronto Star
Now a feature documentary called Surviving Progress from executive producer Martin Scorsese
978-0-88784-806-3 Paperback $24.95 Winter Five Windows on the Season
Adam Gopnik
“Sensationally good . . .” — Toronto Star
“A treasury of people and places and art.” — Globe and Mail
“Highly recommended.” — New York Review of Books 978-0-88784-974-9 Paperback $22.95 The 2011 Massey Lectures will be re-broadcast on CBC Radio in March 2012 978-1-77089-045-9 ePub $18.95 46
Anansi_Press_catalogue_Final_Jan16.pdf 46 12-01-16 12:3311:59 PMAM INDEX Hobbs, Peter ...... 25 Payback ...... 46 Hoggard, Liz ...... 20 Pigeon English ...... 29 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology, Hough, Robert ...... 12 Puppy Love ...... 24 The ...... 11 Household Tips of the Great Writers, Red Pole of Macau, The ...... 28 Ablutions ...... 14 The ...... 37 Robertson, Robin ...... 44 Anna, Threes ...... 22 Illustrated Short History of Progress, Rosenberg, David ...... 2 An...... 46 Antagonist, The ...... 43 Sampson, Fiona ...... 11 In an Antique Land ...... 33 Atwood, Margaret ...... 46 Saro-Wiwa, Noo ...... 35 In the Orchard, the Swallows .....25 Behrens, Peter ...... 30, 44 Sartre’s Sink ...... 39 Incoming! ...... 36 Blair, Tony ...... 43 Scheunemann, Frauke ...... 24 Inside ...... 17 Blais, Marie-Claire ...... 16 Secret of the Crown, The ...... 4 Juliet Stories, The ...... 13 Book for Dangerous Women, The . .20 Sem-Sandberg, Steve ...... 31 Kelman, Stephen ...... 29 Bremer, Ian ...... 2 Signs and Wonders ...... 18 Knight, Erin ...... 9 Brooks, Ben ...... 26 Snyder, Carrie ...... 13 Kovály, Heda ...... 32 Chaser ...... 9 Somewhere Over the Sea ...... 6 Krugman, Paul ...... 2 Circus Bulgaria ...... 42 Stuart, Andrea ...... 41 Law of Dreams, The ...... 44 Coady, Lynn ...... 43 Sugar in the Blood ...... 40 Laxer, James ...... 5 Crick, Mark ...... 37, 38, 39 Summers, Lawrence ...... 2 Lee, Dennis ...... 8 Crosbie, Lynn ...... 15 Tecumseh and Brock ...... 5 Life Is About Losing Everything ...15 Deleted World, The ...... 21 Testament ...... 8 Looking for Transwonderland .....35 deWitt, Patrick ...... 14 Thrifty ...... 45 Machiavelli’s Lawn ...... 38 Dr. Brinkley’s Tower ...... 12 Thrifty Gardening ...... 3 Mai at the Predators’ Ball ...... 16 Emperor of Lies, The ...... 31 Tranströmer, Tomas ...... 21 Malla, Pasha ...... 19, 45 Enev, Deyan ...... 42 Under a Cruel Star ...... 32 McHugh, Heather ...... 11 Fraser, John ...... 4 Under the Hawthorn Tree ...... 23 Mi, Ai ...... 23 Freeman, John ...... 41, 42 Unmemntioable, The ...... 7 Moritz, A.F...... 10 Freihow, Halfdan ...... 6 Wainaina, Binyavanga ...... 34 Moure, Erín ...... 7 Ghosh, Amitav ...... 33 Waiting for the Monsoon ...... 22 New Measures, The ...... 10 Gopnik, Adam ...... 46 Wild Beasts of Wuhan, The ...... 27 Nield, Ted ...... 36 Granta 118 ...... 40 Winter ...... 46 North America’s Lost Decade? .....2 Granta 119 ...... 40 Withdrawal Method, The ...... 45 O’Briens, The ...... 30 Grow Up ...... 26 Wrecking Light, The ...... 44 Ohlin, Alix ...... 17, 18 Hamilton, Ian ...... 27, 28 Wright, Ronald ...... 46 O’Meara, David ...... 11 Harris, Marjorie ...... 3, 45 One Day I Will Write About Hitchens vs. Blair ...... 43 This Place ...... 34 Hitchens, Christopher ...... 43 People Park ...... 19
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