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 am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I broke with my religion in college.