Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
May 4, 2012
Appearing Elsewhere 0
My review of Tom Bissell‘s Magic Hours appears in this Sunday’s NYTBR.
March 1, 2012
For Your Delectation 0
Today’s edition of Book Reviews Worth Reading: Kathryn Schulz‘s first official outing as the book critic for New York Magazine (on the late Anthony Shadid‘s House of Stone) and Anti-Matter author Ben Jeffery‘s take on Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory. (While you’re at it, you might as well read Elaine Blair nailing Houellebecq at [...]
February 16, 2012
Mon Semblable, Mon Frere 0
In a 6,000 word essay for The Point, founding editor Jon Baskin wades into the personal and professional psychodrama of the Franzen-Wallace friendship. Beneath the public surface, finds deep questions about the “novel of the self,” the “novel of society,” and the life worth living.
January 20, 2012
The Literary Pedigree of Downton Abbey 7
The current PBS Masterpiece series mashes the “class” buttons hard, in both the literary and the economic senses. But its relationship with the English novel is more complicated than it might appear.
January 13, 2012
Appearing Elsewhere 0
My essay on Zadie Foster Franzenides and the current state of literary aesthetics is in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine.
December 18, 2011
A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg 4
Behold: a museum of my failures, an atlas of incompletion, a tour of the ruins of a future that never came. I call it “Reviews I Did Not Write This Year.”
