Garth Risk Hallberg

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

I love Hindi films.

Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.