I 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 GreenwellWoolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
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 GreenwellI'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.
Garth GreenwellHistory is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.
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