Garth Greenwell

3 weeks ago | panmacmillan.com | Garth Greenwell

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' – John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam'Exquisite.

Feb 14, 2025 | 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.