I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.
My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years a… - Garth Greenwell
My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years a…
- Garth Greenwell
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. - Garth Greenwell
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than… - Garth Greenwell
I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than…
I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and… - Garth Greenwell
I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and…
I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exis… - Garth Greenwell
I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exis…
There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and espec… - Garth Greenwell
There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and espec…
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. - Garth Greenwell
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do. - Garth Greenwell
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I wou… - Garth Greenwell
When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I wou…
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