Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
March 15, 2010
Strange Bedfellows Department: Glenn Beck and The French Insurrectionists 0
You may have heard that Glenn Beck, sower of anxiety about Obamanomics, is also a shill for gold coin dealer Goldline. But here’s a conspiracy theory for you: Does Glenn Beck also have a stake in the modish French theoretical organ Semiotext(e)? The truth is out there, people.
March 10, 2010
DFW, Viking Enthusiast 1
The New Yorker gives us a glimpse of the David Foster Wallace papers just sold to the Harry Ransom Center, including the youthful “Viking Poem.”
March 10, 2010
Betting on the Blind Side 0
We’ve been tracking excerpts from Michael Lewis‘ just-released The Big Short for a while now; the latest, fascinating installment is at Vanity Fair.
March 4, 2010
High Praise for Rebecca Solnit 0
In a new issue of N1BR, Nikil Saval takes a look at Rebecca Solnit’s latest, calling its predecessor River of Shadows “surely one of the best books of the past decade.”
March 3, 2010
Barry Hannah, 1942-2010 1
Barry Hannah, the mind-blowing author of Airships and many other books, died Monday at age 67.
