Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
July 2, 2010
Wyatt Mason on Lipsky/Wallace 0
The David Foster Wallace interview, Although of Course…, comes under the scrutiny of one of Wallace’s most attentive readers, in the NYRB.
July 2, 2010
The Portable Betty Draper 0
The literary lineage of Mad Men’s Betty Draper extends to Edith Wharton and Margaret Mead, argues Laura Tanenbaum in a new issue of Open Letters Monthly.
June 29, 2010
Difficult Books: Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany 11
Though Dhalgren sold a million copies as science-fiction, it seems at many points no more distant from our own reality than that other trippy whopper from the mid-’70s, Gravity’s Rainbow. For Bellona, read Detroit.
May 27, 2010
Staff Picks: Andrey Platonov’s Soul 3
These eight stories reveal Platonov as an incomparable stylist and an utterly singular sensibility. Indeed, as in only the greatest art, the two form a perfect unity.
May 19, 2010
The Harvard Hoaxer’s Bibliography 0
The Harvard Hoaxer’s not-to-be-missed resume (pdf) includes several impressive under-contract book projects, including The Mapping of an Ideological Demesne; Wampum and the Origins of American Money; and A Short History of North America. Pretty impressive, for a 23-year-old.
