title: Granta 135: New Irish Writing (The Magazine of New Writing)
author: Sigrid Rausing
description: Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of <i>Granta</i> magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of <i>History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm</i> and <i>Everything is Wonderful</i>, which has been translated into four different languages.
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  For Brigid & Philippa
  
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  I must pay tribute to my eyes and ears on the American side, Phillip Gowan
  of Myrtle Beach, North Carolina, to whom I am immensely indebted. I am
  also obliged to Bob Bracken of Midl