For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
Garth GreenwellI'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
Garth GreenwellA Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marรญas sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He's a genius.
Garth GreenwellMy life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.
Garth Greenwell