OF NEW WRITINGLOSERSThis special issue of Granta is devoted to failure.It is a hymn to humiliation--unmitigated publichumiliation. A writer who can't write. A child who can't spell. A champion who--like everyone else in thisissue--always seems to lose. What kind ofchampion is that? A British one. You think you've got it bad? Is your fathera heroin addict? Your mother a coke-head?Are your parents having sex with your best friends?Does your daddy deserve to die? Well, then:you're not a loser~Also in this issue:Jean Hatzfeld's 'The Fall of Vukovar'--theDispatches of the Yugoslav civil war. ~ " ' eGranta ms, quite simply, th most impressiveliterary magazine of its time. Dal',y Telegraph'Some of the most powerful journalism of thelast dozen years, transmitting excitement andintelligence that would be hard to match.'John Carey, Sunday TimesISBN 0-14-014086-708(9>U,K. ~?"~OAN, $ ~