Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg

November 12, 2009

Difficult Books: The Cantos, The Dream Songs, The Sonnets 7

Sometimes a Difficult Book is more swimming pool than jigsaw puzzle. Rather than trying to solve it, we do better just to jump in.

November 11, 2009

How Many Palins Does It Take To Break Even? 0

Will HarperCollins sell 400,000 copies of Going Rogue? (My guess: you betcha.)

November 9, 2009

Claude Levi-Strauss, 1908-2009 2

Levi-Strauss’ most important ideas would become so ubiquitous that you probably already know them, even if you don’t know you know.

November 8, 2009

FYI: GRH 0

The editor of the sumptuous Aussie lit-mag Torpedo – a kind of antipodean McSweeney’s – interviews a recent contributor: me (2).

November 4, 2009

Meta-Dialogue 0

The terrific Gary Amdahl (Visigoth, I Am Death), talks shop with A Public Space.

November 4, 2009

Of Transatlantic Manoeuvres and Colourful Sweaters 0

Our favourite American editor of an across-the-pond publication – Emily Bobrow of More Intelligent Life – chats with The Morning News about Anglo-American stylistic differences: “The English work hard but pretend not to, while Americans often strain to look busy.”