I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.
Garth GreenwellI'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
Garth GreenwellWhenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.
Garth GreenwellI hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay for sex - and deepens over the course of the book to address larger questions of ownership and belonging.
Garth Greenwell