Got out of bed (briefly) to write this.
Dwight Garner
1,219 posts
Book critic for the New York Times. [email protected]
Joined January 2009
- My daughter (who took this photo) edited out the folds in the sheet behind me. I asked her to put them back in."I want to break our sense of what a good quote is." @DwightGarner distinguishes the good from the groan-worthy on this week's podcast ◆ ow.ly/fwxi50CmmAX @fsgbooks
- If you don't know Moe's, I wrote a short primer last year.
- Moe's, the great Berkeley bookstore, needs help. gofundme.com/f/Fund-STAFF-B…
- Beautiful Maggie Roche memorial concert tonight at the Sheen Center. Tufts of hair at bottom right belong to Loudon Wainwright III.
- Co-sign. What a pleasure it's been.
- Insomnia, now with news the great Les Murray has died. I wrote about him in 2011.
- On the great Winooski, Vt. restaurant that connects me, my wife, and the terrific poet/critic Dan Chiasson.I’m in Dwight Garner’s new, excellent food memoir, and he’s in my Bernie book. So it appears the past actually happened—I didn’t dream it up
- My plea for smaller novels, and more of them tinyurl.com/3k8qp9w
- At the wine store; looking for something with a bit of sorrow in it.
- If you’re not watching the Raul Julia episode of “American Masters,” you’re missing something.










