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Garth Greenwell on the Ethical Limits of Teaching and Making Art

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival

Garth Greenwell

During The Yale Review's Spring 2023 Literary Festival, novelist and critic Garth Greenwell read from his forthcoming novel, and he discussed writing, desire, and teaching with poet and senior editor Maggie Millner and The Yale Review's editor, Meghan O'Rourke. Watch a recording of the entire event here.

Garth Greenwell is the author of two books of fiction, Cleanness and What Belongs to You. A new novel, Small Rain, is forthcoming in fall 2024. His nonfiction has appeared widely, including in The New Yorker and Harper’s, and he writes regularly about music, film, and literature for the newsletter To a Green Thought. He is currently a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at NYU.
Originally published:
June 7, 2023

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