Lit mag Granta, under the auspices of new editor Jason Cowley, launches their redesigned website today with a bunch of bells and whistles including an online archive of the first 100 issues, web-exclusive interviews (the first is with so hot right now Junot Diaz) and a 'New Voices' section, which will, every two weeks, publish a short story that wasn't quite good enough to make it into the print magazine ("Many of these writers will not have agents, and some will have never been previously published. But all will be of exceptional promise," is how the press release puts it.)

But the most exciting news: online editor Roy Robbins is BLOGGING over there now. His blog is called 'The Week in Pieces.' Already we are loving his opinions re: Lionel Shriver's disapproval of the sale of Norman Mailer mistress Carole Mallory's papers and his assertion that "The reality of self-publishing is less cute and more complex than [Rachel] Donadio describes [in the NYTBR]."

But best of all is his analysis of why Salman Rushdie is playing Helen Hunt's gynecologist in her directorial debut: "Padma Lakshmi, Rushdie's ex-wife, couldn't establish herself as a successful actor, and became a celebrity chef instead. Is it the case that, after their divorce, Rushdie wants to spite Lakshmi by becoming a movie star?"

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