Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
July 25, 2011
A Poor Man’s Jaron Lanier? 0
I recently sat down for a long and wide-ranging interview with The Faster Times. Topics covered include technology, Taco Bell, technology, Richard Yates, technology, Friday Night Lights, and…er…Internet self-promotion.
July 20, 2011
What Ever Happened to the New Atheism? 24
Five years ago, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens launched a jihad against religion. But their colleague A.C. Grayling’s new “Humanist Bible” suggests something surprising: maybe the quarrel wasn’t really with God after all.
June 25, 2011
New Deborah Eisenberg Story 0
In a 2010 profile, Deborah Eisenberg told us, of her current efforts at writing fiction, “I’m sort of desperately throwing myself against pieces of paper and only coming up with what look like bug smears.” Now, as will shock none of her readers Eisenberg has come up with something considerably more appetizing: a new short story [...]
June 6, 2011
Reading Tonight at Housing Works 0
New York-area readers are invited to come tonight to Housing Works bookstore in SoHo, where I’ll be appearing at 7 p.m. alongside the Norwegian wunderkind Johan Harstad. We’ll be reading from and discussing A Field Guide to the North American Family and Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? Music courtesy of [...]
June 6, 2011
Lorin Stein on Grace Paley, Elliot Gould, and philo-semi-Semitism 0
Jewcy offers a wide-ranging and formidably erudite interview with Paris Review editor Lorin Stein.
June 6, 2011
DFW Festchrift at The Quarterly Conversation 0
The new issue of The Quarterly Conversation features a symposium on the work of the late David Foster Wallace, featuring essays by Edie Meidav, Lance Olsen, and Andrew Altschul…plus Scott Esposito‘s welcome defense of Infinite Jest‘s canonization.
