Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.
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…
- 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
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…
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as … - Garth Greenwell
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as …
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.
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.
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…
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.
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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