Garth Greenwell, the award-winning novelist, will appear at Fairfield University in an author talk on March 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Greenwell is the author of the 2016 book “What Belongs to You,” which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His most recent book of fiction, “Cleanness,” was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, a New York Times Critics Top 10 Book of the Year, and a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, TIME, NPR, the BBC, and more than 30 other publications.
He was also co-editor of the anthology “Kink,” which was published in 2021 and won the inaugural Joy Award from the #MarginsBookstore Collective, and became a national bestseller. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written nonfiction for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and Harper”™s, among others.
“Greenwell is, quite simply, one of the finest stylists of prose working today,” said Phil Klay, who instructs undergraduate courses at Fairfield and mentors in the MFA program. “His work is beautifully structured, profound and fearless, but above all it is beautiful. His sentences about desire and fear and sex and art and the self are absolutely exhilarating to read.”
Greenwell”™s appearance is being coordinated through a partnership with the Open Visions Forum: Espresso lecture series and the College of Arts and Sciences”™ Inspired Writers Series.
More information is available on the Fairfield University website.
