For the American football player, see Dwight Garner (American football).
Dwight Garner
Born
(1965-01-08) January 8, 1965 (age 59)[citation needed] Fairmont, West Virginia, U.S.
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]
^"Garner's Quotations". Macmillan. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
^"Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements" at Amazon.
DwightGarner (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...
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to see it back." The format has also been praised by literary critic DwightGarner, who welcomed "what feels almost like a new genre: long enough for genuine...
cancer take its course. "It’s as good as The Friend, if not better." — DwightGarner The Vulnerables (2023). A writer, old enough to be considered a “vulnerable”...
being alive when being alive feels terrible." In The New York Times, DwightGarner was more hesitant in his praise, but ultimately concluded: "Moshfegh...
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recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. DwightGarner argued in 2018 that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of...
that offers a vital message with uncommon sympathy and intelligence." DwightGarner of The New York Times characterized it as a book about "ecological salvation"...
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