"…There’s a way in which I hope the nine chapters are like spheres of intensity that are placed in a relationship that is not the consequence of plot or the linearity of chronology, but is instead a kind of constellation, that there are charged relationships between them that is like a key change, or a mood, or an echo, or a motif. That may sound pretentious, but I think there’s a place for pretentiousness in art."
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On the structure of his second book Cleanness in “Garth Greenwell: 'Sex is an extraordinary subject for a writer'” in The Guardian (2020 Apr 18)
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