I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marรญas are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.
Garth GreenwellWoolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
Garth GreenwellNone of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.
Garth GreenwellThere are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage.
Garth Greenwell