I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don’t want it to end. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
You don’t have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu’s book ‘Distinction’ to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we’re doing publicly, ‘like’-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience’s defection to other forms of entertainment. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
In college, I was a huge fan of ‘Les Miserables.’ I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo’s poetry. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
I’m not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me – that can be useful for writing – but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout. Garth Risk Hallberg Read Quote
