Dwight Garner
Dwight Garner | |
---|---|
Born | citation needed] Fairmont, West Virginia, U.S. | January 8, 1965 [
Occupation | Writer, journalist |
Alma mater | Middlebury College |
Genre | Criticism, non-fiction |
Dwight Garner (born January 8, 1965) is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany[1] and Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements.[2] In 2023 he published his memoir, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading.[3]
Journalism and writing
Garner's previous post at The New York Times was as senior editor of
His essays and journalism have appeared in
"If you read just one literary critic in the Times, you should read Dwight Garner. But let's say you don't read any books sections, which would sadly put you in the vast majority of the population: You should still read Dwight Garner", Benjamin Errett wrote in Toronto's
Garner wrote a biweekly column for The New York Times called "American Beauties", which focused on under-sung American books of the past 75 years.
Early life and work
Garner was born in Fairmont, West Virginia[14] and grew up in that state and in Naples, Florida. He graduated from Middlebury College, where he majored in American literature.[15] While in college, he wrote book criticism for The Village Voice, music and theater criticism for the Vanguard Press, a Burlington, Vermont alternative weekly, and was a stringer for The New York Times.
After his graduation from college, Garner was a reporter for The Addison Independent. He then became the arts editor of Vermont Times, a new alternative weekly in Burlington. He also became a contributing editor to the Boston Phoenix. In the 1990s Garner was a columnist for the Hungry Mind Review. After moving to New York City in 1994, he worked for one year as an associate editor at Harper's Bazaar [16] under the editorship of Liz Tilberis.[17]
Garner lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Cree LeFavour.[18] [19] They have two children.
References
- ^ "Garner's Quotations". Macmillan. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
- ^ "Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements" at Amazon.
- ^ "The Upstairs Delicatessen".
- ^ a b Author bio Archived October 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at HarperCollins
- ^ "Dwight Garner". Esquire.
- ^ https://asme.magazine.org/about-asme/pressroom/asme-press-releases/asme/ellies-2017-finalists-announced [dead link]
- ^ Lincoln Center's American Songbook, Lincoln Center.
- ^ Noah, Timothy (January 7, 2011). "I Like Dwight". Slate. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- ^ Errett, Benjamin (June 6, 2014). "The Week in Wit: Let there be Dwight (Garner), on the prickly sentences of a great critic". The National Post.
- ^ "American Beauties" in The New York Times.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (February 23, 2017). "The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was 'Richard Pryor on Paper'". The New York Times.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (June 1, 2017). "On Fire Makes Bad Habits Sound Very Sweet". The New York Times.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (April 3, 2019). "How I Won the War Against Regret Playing Backgammon in Monte Carlo". Esquire.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (August 12, 2010). "The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve Its Past". The New York Times. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- ^ Podhaizer, Suzanne (January 9, 2008). "Cooking the Books". Seven Days. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- ^ Garner, Dwight. "Dwight Garner | Harper's Magazine". harpers.org.
- ^ Liz Tilberis
- ^ "20 More Cookbooks". The New York Times. June 1, 2008. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- ^ Merkin, Daphne (July 24, 2017). "An Odyssey Through Self-Harm and Out the Other Side". The New York Times.