Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
December 9, 2009
Are Babies Racist? 1
Are critically acclaimed authors really terrible? Is feminism bad for women? New York Magazine runs down the greatest hits of what appears, in hindsight, to have been the Decade of Counterintuition (and, in the process, catalogues many of my personal bêtes noires).
December 7, 2009
Translate This Book! 0
The Quarterly Conversation has commissioned short essays from a panel of luminaries, including Juan Goytisolo and Enrique Vila-Matas, for a feature on untranslated masterworks called “Translate This Book!” Highly recommended.
December 4, 2009
Proof that Obama is a Socialist 1
At long last…Google provides proof that Obama is a socialist! “Barrack” Obama, that is.
December 3, 2009
And in This Corner, Weighing in at 900 Pages… 1
The eagle-eyed Scott Esposito alerts us to a forthcoming 900-page collection of short stories by Stephen Dixon. One hopes Fantagraphics has beefed up its copy-editing department since its last fictional behemoth, Alexander Theroux‘s Laura Warholic.
December 3, 2009
An Interview in the Worst Way 0
We Are Champion, a handsome new online literary magazine promulgating “what Donald Barthelme called “back-broke” sentences,” features an interview with the great Gary Lutz.
November 30, 2009
TLS Best Books of the Year 0
The Times Literary Supplement offers “Best Books of 2009″ picks from a smattering of contributors, including Julian Barnes and Ali Smith.
