The first issue of the new Granta collects work by some of the most accomplished American writers of the seventies – many published for the first time in Britain. Contributors include William Gass, Joyce Carol Oates, Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag.

In this issue:
William Warner: Interview with Theodore Solotaroff
John Hawkes: The Universal Fears
William Gass: The First Winter of my Married Life
Joyce Carol Oates: from Son of the Morning
Tony Tanner: Present Imperfect: Note on Walter Abish
Marc Granetz: Chuckle or Gasp: a note on the work of Leonard Michaels
Norman Bryson: Orgy...: A Note on the Work of James Purdy
Leonard Michaels: The Men’s Club
James Purdy: Summer Tidings
Tillie Olsen: Requa-I
Donald Barthelme: The New Music
D. D. Guttenplan: The Wor(l)ds of William Gass
Jonathan Levi: John Cheever in the Bourgeois Tradition
John Dugdale: Updike’s Nabokov
Stanley Elkin: from The Franchiser
Ronald Sukenick: from Long Talking Bad Condition Blues
Susan Sontag: Unguided Tour
Henry Davis: A Plug for Bukowski