Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes

By Mark Crick

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to have dinner with Franz Kafka, Jane Austen or Raymond Chandler, this is your chance to find out.

Literary ventriloquist Mark Crick presents 17 recipes in the voices of famous writers, from Homer to Irvine Welsh.

Guaranteed to delight lovers of food and books, these witty pastiches will keep you so entertained in the kitchen that you'll be sorry when your guests arrive.

'Unpalatable' Franz Kafka

'Stuck in my throat' Raymond Chandler

'He'll rot in hell' Graham Greene

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The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

By Richard Ford

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in 1992. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century – an 'exemplary choice' in the words of the Washington Post – with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration.

In the fourteen years since, Ford has been reading new storhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifies and re-reading old ones and selecting new favourites. This new collection, again of more than forty writers, expands Ford's orginal choice to include stories that he regretted overlooking first time around as well as many by a new generation of writers, among them Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freidenberg, Matt Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z.Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) was in the first volume.

Taken together, Ford's two volumes constitute an important reflection and judgment of recent American writing - as well as the superb pleasure yielded by the stories themselves.

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