Garth Greenwell
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The Strange Case of Garth Greenwell October 28, 2024
Garth Greenwell’s first book, What Belongs to You, succeeded even if his weaknesses were in plain sight. His sense of language so effectively captured abjection and sexual obsession that you didn’t mind whatever else was wrong with it. Greenwell seld...
A Conversation With Colm Tóibín October 16, 2024
I want to start by saying what an extraordinary honor it is to get to be in conversation with Colm Tóibín, who I think is one of the genuinely great writers of our time. I’ve been reading Colm since I was fourteen years old, long before I imagined ...
The Lessons of Pain September 30, 2024
Garth Greenwell is best known for autobiographical fiction about sex and the body, but with Small Rain, the American author now turns to the physicality of suffering. In sparse prose interspersed with occasional lyrical musings, a nameless poet is di...
Garth Greenwell’s Book Is Unreadable September 11, 2024
A friend has been texting me about the new Garth Greenwell novel. My friend’s like, it's so bad! What do people see in it?I'm honestly kind of bemused by the whole exchange. Of course it's bad. Aren't hype-machine books usually bad? Does it even matt...
The First Great Covid Novel September 05, 2024
Garth Greenwell is the emerging writer I have been most excited about in the past decade, mostly for his powerful intellect and smiting prose skills. His work is more closely observed, better detailed, and more elegantly constructed than almost anyon...
6 New Novels to Read in September September 03, 2024
The best reads this month, from Garth Greenwell, Rumaan Alam, Danzy Senna, and more....
Garth Greenwell’s Grand Romance September 02, 2024
On a muggy July afternoon in Iowa City, I went grocery shopping with the writer Garth Greenwell. We hit up the town’s 1971-founded co-op armed with a short list from his partner, the poet Luis Muñoz. I was going over for dinner the next day, and ingr...
The Interior Dramas of Garth Greenwell August 29, 2024
Garth Greenwell was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky; spent his high school and university years in Michigan, Missouri, New York, and Massachusetts; and has lived in the United States for the past decade, during which time he has become celebr...
