Garth Greenwell

2 months ago | bookbrowse.com | Garth Greenwell

"Small Rain" by Garth Greenwell starts in the claustrophobic confines of an American emergency room during the pandemic's peak. I, for one, am thankful for having never experienced that firsthand. After the ER, we ended up in a hospital room, explained by the dizzying stream of consciousness accented by page-long paragraphs. We meander from the nameless narrator's abusive upbringing and difficult early adulthood, the kinds of things that one ponders when considering one's mortality.

Jan 19, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Richard Wright |Garth Greenwell |Novuyo Tshuma |Santiago Sánchez

What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).

Jan 19, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Richard Wright |Garth Greenwell |Novuyo Tshuma |Santiago Sánchez

What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Growing up, I read everything I could find—books from the Lantern series that my mother bought me, Maltina comics, legal thrillers by John Grisham as well as adventure novels my uncle lent me. I also read a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that I salvaged from my neighbour’s pile (he was throwing things out, and the book was missing a few pages).

Dec 18, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Garth Greenwell |Emily Witt

Many TV​ shows are set in hospitals, but fewer novels, at least ones that take place outside the psychiatric ward. Hospitals make for good drama: the path to diagnosis is a mystery plot with inherent narrative tension; the stakes are life and death. The best physician-novelists – Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Crichton (who was also the creator of the show ER) – deploy technical language and scientific reasoning to produce an effect of dazzling competence.

Nov 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Garth Greenwell

My earliest reading memory The earliest book I remember reading and loving was Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon. A boy imagines himself into an adventure, gets into trouble, imagines a way home. It bears rereading still: it’s the very best parable of the creative life I know. My favourite book growing up I read voraciously and indiscriminately as a kid, so much so that I’m not sure I really had favourites.