Garth Greenwell: Last News

What books are on your night stand? What tends to accumulate is a mix of active pleasure reading, books I hope to pleasure-read very soon and anything I might want a sip of before sleep. It rotates seasonally; it’s a mess. A selection: Poetry: James Longenbach, “Seafarer”; Lynn Xu, “Debts & Lessons”; Shakespeare’s sonnets.Fiction: Maya Binyam, “Hangman”; Kevin Lambert, “May Our Joy Endure” (translated by Donald Winkler); Mark Haber, “Lesser Ruins.”Nonfiction: François Truffaut, “The Films in My Life” (translated by Leonard Mayhew); Ryan Coyne, “Heidegger’s Confessions.” What kind of reader were you as a child? Which books and authors stick with you most? The first book I loved was “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” which still seems perfect to me.