Articles by Garth Risk Hallberg
April 17, 2011
Ah, the Humanities! 0
Nicholas Dames is a wonderful writer, and I suggest you read his essay on the “crisis” in the Humanities.
April 14, 2011
Hot Authors 2
“Author-hot” has historically been a pejorative phrase, or at best faint praise, but Canteen is looking to change that with its “Hot Authors” project, “reinterpreting and reappropriating fashion magazine glam” for the Moleskine set. The redesigned Canteen website also features an interview with yours truly – not, I’m sad to report, included in the “Hot [...]
April 14, 2011
Yugolysses 1
The “Yugoslavian Ulysses,” (not actually titled Yugolysses) has been newly translated into English, and gets a thoughtful but mixed review in TNR.
April 2, 2011
…And If You Still Want More on The Pale King 2
I can’t recommend John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s 7,000-word article on The Pale King highly enough – not because he gets everything right, but because it’s what long-form writing about books should look like: passionate, lucid, wide-ranging, and awfully fun to read. I salute GQ for running it, and hope to see more literary coverage there in [...]
April 1, 2011
Appearing Elsewhere: The Pale King and the DFW Legacy 3
You can read my take on The Pale King – and what it says about Wallace’s legacy – at New York Magazine.
March 5, 2011
Charlie Sheen’s Poetry 1
It was probably inevitable that someone would turn the ravings of Charlie Sheen into found poetry. But unlike similar collections “by” Donald Rumsfeld and Rod Blagojevich, this one offers us the opportunity to compare it to the real thing – Sheen’s early ’90s chef d’oeuvre, A Peace of My Mind.
