Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
September 14, 2009
Appearing Elsewhere 0
This Thursday, at Housing Works Bookstore in New York, Garth will represent The Millions in a live quiz show called (accurately) Don’t Know Much About Literature. Kenneth C. and Jenny Davis, authors of DKMAL, the book, will host. Co-contestants include Jason Boog of Galleycat, Ed Champion of Reluctant Habits, Jason Toal of HTML GIANT, Catherine [...]
September 14, 2009
Jim Carroll, 1950 – 2009 4
in the subculture of which Jim Carroll was a sort of poet laureate – one of them, anyway – the movie of The Basketball Diaries registers only as a minor souvenir.
September 10, 2009
Hot Amish Romance 1
Is it hot in here, or is that my Amish friendship bread? New York calls our attention to a new genre: the bonnet-ripper.
September 10, 2009
Clash of the Esoterics 0
Two guys who can talk about just about anything – Nicholson Baker and NPR’s Tom Ashbrook – did just that yesterday on On Point, as Baker promoted his latest opus, The Anthologist.
September 10, 2009
Lispector Inspector 0
The new issue of The New York Review of Books is out. A highlight, as usual, is Michael Wood, who does a better job than we did with Inherent Vice. But those of us on this side of the pay wall will have to make do with Lorrie Moore‘s intriguing essay on Clarice Lispector.
September 3, 2009
Speaking of The New Yorker… 2
Is just me, or has The New Yorker been resurgent the last few weeks? In addition to the David Grann piece mentioned below, we’ve gotten: Bloomberg, diving, James Wood‘s most cogent essay to date on atheism and belief, and a F-B-P triple play. (That’s Friend to Bilger to Paumgarten, for those keeping score at home.) [...]
