I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, … - Garth Greenwell

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Garth Greenwell

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

Ambition, Arrangements, Foreclose, People, Possibilities, Thinking

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I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay for sex - and deepens over the course of the book to address larger questions of ownership and belonging.

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I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

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I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

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I often say that Bernhard, W. G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.

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Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

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