This week’s guest is author and editor Bill Buford.
In 1979, as a postgraduate student at Cambridge, he revived the famous literary magazine Granta, which he then edited until 1995, at which point he returned to the United States to become the fiction editor at The New Yorker.
He has also written a number of books, including Among the Thugs. Published in 1992, the book tells of Buford’s experience of spending six years embedded with English football hooligans, with whom he ran across the country and the continent.
He shares his wildest memories from those days, and we chat more broadly about football violence: why do people do it? What does he make of how football has changed? Did the themes of his book foreshadow the Brexit vote? And did the book inspire Fight Club _and _Green Street?
We also talk about his time at Granta - at which he first published the likes of Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie - and his work with the _New Yorker, _as Bill explains the challenges of editing Philip Roth.
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