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Small Rain has been longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. See the full list here.
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Small Rain has been named a Notable or Best Book of 2024 by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, Publishers Weekly, The New Statesman, the Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Vulture, Vox, BookPage and the New York Public Library.
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Garth’s new novel, Small Rain, was published by FSG in the US on Sept 3, and by Picador in the UK on Sept 19. He was profiled by Sarah Thankam Matthews in New York Magazine and featured on the cover of Poets & Writers, and the novel received a rave review from Parul Sehgal in The New Yorker.
Please order the novel at your local bookstore, or from any of the online retailers here (for US) or here (for UK). Check the events page for his tour details, and please come say hello if you can.
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Garth now has a Substack newsletter on culture, To a Green Thought. You can read posts and subscribe to it here.
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KINK: Stories, co-edited with R.O. Kwon, is a New York Times Notable Book of 2021. See the full list here.
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Garth has received the Harold D. Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The prize jury consisted of Amy Hempel, Edwidge Danticat, Louise Glück, John Guare, Edward Hirsch, and Joy Williams. See the announcement here.
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CLEANNESS is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. The full list of nominees is here.
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PURETÉ, the French edition of CLEANNESS, has been longlisted for the Prix Sade 2021. You can find the full list of nominees here.
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KINK, an anthology of BDSM-inspired fiction co-edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, appeared in the US and the UK in February 2021, was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and became a national bestseller.
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CLEANNESS is one of Time Magazine’s Must-Read Books of 2020. It has also been named a Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post, and a Best Book of 2020 by The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, the BBC, Esquire, NPR, the Financial Times, and more than thirty other publications.
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CLEANNESS has been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. See the rest of the longlist here.
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Garth has been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. See the rest of this year’s honorees here.
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CLEANNESS was published in the US on January 14. Garth was profiled in The New York Times on the eve of publication, and the book received a rave review from Dwight Garner in the daily NYT and another from Colm Tóibín on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review.
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A new story, “Harbor,” is in the September 16, 2019 issue of The New Yorker. You can read the text online here, or hear Garth read it here. There’s also a short interview about the story available here.
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A new book of fiction, CLEANNESS, will be published by FSG in the US on January 14, 2020, and by Picador in the UK on April 30, 2020. Read about the book, including an interview with Garth’s editor and FSG’s Publisher, Mitzi Angel, here.
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A new story, “The Frog King,” is in the November 26, 2018 issue of The New Yorker. You can read the text online here, or listen to Garth read it here. There’s also a short interview about the story available here.
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What Belongs to You is named one of the 100 most important books of the 21st century (so far) by Vulture, and one of the defining books of the 2010s (so far) at LitHub.
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Garth is the 2018-19 John & Renee Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. You can find more information about the program here.
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On August 15, Garth spoke with Matt Frei about cruising and LGBT rights for Channel 4 News. You can watch the segment here.
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A new story, "An Evening Out," is in the August 21, 2017 issue of The New Yorker. You can read the text online here, or listen to Garth read it here. There's also a short interview about the story available on The New Yorker's website.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU has won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. See the full list of winners here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is a finalist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the UK's oldest literary award. See the rest of the finalists here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is on the shortlist for the Green Carnation Prize, honoring LGBT literature in the UK. See the rest of the shortlist here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is a finalist for a British Book Award for Best Fiction Debut. See the full list of finalists here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. See the rest of the finalists here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. See the rest of the finalists here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Fiction. See the full list of finalists here.
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At the New Yorker, James Wood names WHAT BELONGS TO YOU one of his four favorite books of 2016. See the rest of the list here.
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Dwight Garner names WHAT BELONGS TO YOU one of the Top 10 Books of 2016 at The New York Times. See the rest of the list here.
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Publishers Weekly names WHAT BELONGS TO YOU one of the Top 10 Books of 2016. WBTY has also been named a Notable or Best Book of 2016 by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Spectator, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, NPR, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Herald Scotland, Esquire, New York Magazine, GQ, BuzzFeed, NYLON, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Indendent (Ireland), OUT, Slate, PBS Book View Now, Vol 1 Brooklyn, The Chicago Review of Books, RTE (Ireland), Review 31 (UK), The Hindu (India), The Sunday Times (South Africa), Bustle, The Miami Herald, Chicago Reader, The Telegraph, Minnesota Public Radio, The Bay Area Reporter, Entropy Magazine, Jezebel, Largehearted Boy, Overland (Australia), The Rereaders (Australia), The New Indian Express, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), The Winnipeg Free Press, Knack Focus (Belgium), SBS (Australia), Glommable, Digg, The Wild Detectives, Bookish Buzz, Otago Daily Times (New Zealand), Walrus, Civilian, Run Spot Run, Good Books Guide, The Adroit Journal, The Fader, Their Bated Breath, and Cultured Vultures. It's also included in The Guardian's Best Holiday Reads 2016.
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Four writers named WHAT BELONGS TO YOU in The Guardian's Best Books of 2016: Andrew Solomon ("The best first novel I have read in a generation"), Damian Barr ("A classic"), SJ Watson ("A novel that finds the beauty and poetry in cruising bathrooms for sex"), and Rupert Thomson ("It's the specificity of Garth Greenwell's observations that gives this debut novel its emotional power").
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is longlisted for the National Book Award. See the rest of the longlist here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. See the rest of the shortlist here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is a WHSmith Fresh Talent Summer 2016 pick. Learn more about the promotion here.
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Garth was interviewed by Michael Silverblatt for KCRW's Bookworm. Audio is available here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is #4 on the Evening Standard's list of London bestsellers in fiction (5/12/16).
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU was discussed on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review. Audio is available here.
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is #3 on the Evening Standard's list of London bestsellers in fiction (4/21/16).
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU makes the LA Times Bestseller list (2/7 & 2/21/16).
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice (2/7/2016).
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WHAT BELONGS TO YOU is out on Jan 19 from FSG in the US and on April 7 from Picador in the UK. Translations forthcoming into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese, Finnish, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, and Bulgarian.