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garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
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Over the moon that Small Rain is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. I'm honored to be among these writers. www.penfaulkner.org/2025/03/03/a... @penfaulkner.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Before tonight’s Oscar ceremony, I gathered some thoughts & feelings about the Best Picture & Acting nominees; & why the cinematic tragedy of the year is that Pedro Almodóvar made the wrong film. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just a brutal end to a chapter from @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, almost the upside down version of Jack Gilbert's "Manger of Incidentals"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just in time for the Oscars: why The Brutalist is so bad (partial answer: a very creaky narrative device); & a few wildly irresponsible opinions about the Best Picture contenders. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

oh hi thank you so much @nytimes.com for recommending Kink in your Valentine’s Day gift guide 🫀🖤 www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/g...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I talked w Patrick Nathan about a single sentence from The Future Was Color--& also about meaning-making, the work of memory, & why so much current American sex writing is abject. Link here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/the-story-...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

So I’ve been talking some on here about our translation of an Ethiopian novel, Oromay by Baalu Girma, but here’s a chance to talk about a fantastic novel from the Ethiopian diaspora, Dinaw Mengestu’s Someone Like Us, with the equally fantastic @garthgreenwell.bsky.social.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Less than two weeks before the first meeting of the online To a Green Thought book club. We'll be chatting about Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us. For full details & info on how to join, check out the link. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/an-ideal-o...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely gorgeous writing on a gorgeous book. ❤️

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Immensely honored to be on the longlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, alongside these excellent writers. www.penfaulkner.org/2025/02/03/a... @penfaulkner.bsky.social

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

I wrote about a single, virtuosic sentence from Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color, & then talked with Patrick about the process of writing it. The start of a new series for lovers of nerdy craft talk: The Story of a Sentence. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/the-story-...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I have something new out in MLQ. Free for 90 days. Get it while it's hot. Begins with @garthgreenwell.bsky.social's impeccable novel & ends with PoemTalk episode featuring @afilreis.bsky.social, @julivox.bsky.social, @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social, & Maxe Crandall. read.dukeupress.edu/modern-langu...

submitted 40 days ago • 9 comments

I wrote about why book clubs are my favorite form of human interaction, with a paean to legendary Prairie Lights bookseller Paul Ingram. Also: announcing a new online book club. Info on our first reads & how to join: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/an-ideal-o...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I'm starting a Zoom book club for readers of the To a Green Thought newsletter. Learn how to join, & what our first books will be. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/an-ideal-o...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Read this wonderful tribute to the depiction of tenderness in Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/garthgre...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

If your haven't already, go watch this glorious film and then read this equally amazing essay. (In India it is in theatres and on Hotstar) #allweimagineaslight

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

“I’m not sure I’ve seen another film that so embodies tenderness, that’s so lavish in its distribution. It’s as if Kapadia refuses to think of tenderness, of the tenderness of our attention, as a finite resource.”

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about transgressive realism and the aesthetics of tenderness in Payal Kapadia's extraordinary All We Imagine as Light, my favorite film of 2024. Free post; no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/an-aesthet...

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

Read @garthgreenwell.bsky.social’s newsletter and recognized that the new Catherine Barnett book of poems he praised was my husband’s perfect present. So I left for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social books, which had 2 copies, scooped one up and then… bought myself some other books, an accident of fate.

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

I wrote about my 12 favorite reads of 2024. Also: the best movie I saw all year. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/twelve-fav...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

'..how helpless desire is outside its little theater of heat, how ridiculous it becomes the moment it isn't welcomed, even if that welcome is contrived.' Universal truth from @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

For this @debutiful.bsky.social list, I wrote about A Small Rain by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, which is probably the first time I’ve written (however briefly and obliquely) about my bout with testicular cancer this time last year. debutiful.net/2024/12/17/1...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Huge congrats to fave Franklin Park Reading Series alums Marie-Helene Bertino, Vinson Cunningham, and @garthgreenwell.bsky.social and upcoming FP star @josephoneill.bsky.social on being longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Award for Fiction!

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Very happy and honored that Small Rain is longlisted for the NBCC Award in fiction, alongside such excellent writers. @bookcritics.bsky.social www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments