Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
Garth GreenwellI felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.
Garth GreenwellMy first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life.
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 Greenwell