Garth Risk Hallberg Will Never Read This Blog Post
April 7, 2011
It’s part of my job to keep track of what MBP authors and artists are up to, primarily so I can rave about them to readers and media, but a fun little side-effect of looking at their incredible output is feeling overwhelmed (read: inadequate). Garth Risk Hallberg, author of A Field Guide to the North American Family, is one of those writers whose name shows up everywhere–at least everywhere that publishes thoughtful essays and fiction.
Most recently, his (positive) review of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King in New York Magazine is a must-read. But it’s the interview of him in Canteen that provides some insight into my questions about how he manages to do it all, and all so well: he got rid of his browser. Say it again: “I don’t engage terribly much with the internet.”
Now I know how he’s so productive, but I guess I’ll be waiting until the next interview to find out how he looks at pictures of kittens without the internet.
