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    A Year in Reading: Garth Greenwell

    by Garth Greenwell Dec 06, 2017 3 minutes

    Early in the year, an editor’s comment on an essay draft sent me back to , whom I hadn’t read since graduate school. And I think even then I only read one novel, , which somehow didn’t make an overwhelming impression. It made one now, and I spent the first couple of months of 2017 reading novel after novel, in a state of real amazement. Zola is an uneven writer, sometimes careless, and

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