Chris Ware

It's Chicago's turn to inspire an issue of Granta, the esteemed British literary journal that seems to instantly confer upon the subscriber a mantle of elevated intellect, or at least the appearance of it. I talked about the issue with editor John Freeman.

Even when I was an unemployed web designer and before I became a food writer, we set aside money and saved to dine at Alinea precisely because we thought there was something more important going on.