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" You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream. "

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" I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

Drive

New York

Age

" For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on. "

" We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

Trying

Doing

" I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household. "

" I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling. "

" I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.' "

" I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end. "

" I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world. "

" I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001. "

" Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small. "

" I associated excellence in writing with New York City. "

" Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that. "

" I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.' "

" Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid. "

" I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer. "

" I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer. "

" I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

Thought

New York

" If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do. "

" The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

Writing

Ego

" Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment. "

" When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you. "

" A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

Know

Film

" I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities. "

" I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

New

Started

" At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik. "

" I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth. "

" I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego. "

" The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be. "

" In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry. "

" I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded. "

Garth Risk Hallberg

Why

I Am