Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell is the author of Small Rain, which won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award. His nonfiction has appeared widely, including in The New Yorker and Harper’s, and he writes regularly about music, film, and literature for the Substack newsletter To a Green Thought. He is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

Taking Offense

Reading through bad feeling
June 9, 2025

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
December 4, 2023
TYR Talks

Garth Greenwell on the Ethical Limits of Teaching and Making Art

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival
June 7, 2023

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
March 20, 2023
Conversations

Three Queer Writers on Craft and Cruising

February 28, 2022