Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg is a novelist and critic who resides in New York City with his wife and children. His first novel, City on Fire, was a New York Times and international bestseller, and was named one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Vogue. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Millions, and Slate.
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