Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell is the author of Small Rain, which won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award. His nonfiction has appeared widely, including in The New Yorker and Harper’s, and he writes regularly about music, film, and literature for the Substack newsletter To a Green Thought. He is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
Abstract photo of bent-over nude

Taking Offense

Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell
June 9, 2025

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
December 4, 2023
TYR Talks

Garth Greenwell on the Ethical Limits of Teaching and Making Art

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival
Garth Greenwell
June 7, 2023

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell
March 20, 2023
Conversations

Three Queer Writers on Craft and Cruising

Garth Greenwell,
Richie Hofmann,
and
Carl Phillips
February 28, 2022