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Garth Risk Hallberg

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Garth Risk Hallberg’s stories and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Prairie Schooner, New York Magazine, Glimmer Train, Slate, Canteen, and The Pinch, as well as at The Millions, where he’s a contributing editor.

A 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Fiction and a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Balakian award for excellence in book reviewing, Garth teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Hallberg earned his BA at Washington University in St. Louis, and an MFA at New York University.

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Garth Risk Hallberg’s books

Average rating: 3.41 · 16,785 ratings · 2,796 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	City on Fire 3.39 avg rating — 15,453 ratings — published 1997 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan, Naomi Lebowitz (Translator), Garth Risk Hallberg (Introduction) 4.40 avg rating — 1,759 ratings — published 1898 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Field Guide to the North American Family 3.36 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 by Sigrid Rausing (Editor), Jesse Ball (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Halle Butler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.48 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Coming 3.02 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books by Jeff Martin, C. Max Magee (Editor), Kyle Beachy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant, Garth Risk Hallberg (introduction) 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penny liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Coming: A Novel it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE SECOND COMING 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we put ourselves in service to something larger than ourselves; it is one of those larger somethings. That's its rhetorical genius, and is how Wallace gets his self-help “to fly at such a high altitude”: Like AA, it is theory and praxis in a single stroke. Or: It is what it says, which may be the purest form of art.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg

tags: david-foster-wallace, infinite-jest

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“Sometimes you weren’t yet the person you needed to be to do the work you needed to do.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

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“The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

tags: america

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