The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Vogue. It was the basis for the Apple TV+ series of the same name. He is also the author of the novella A Field Guide to the North American Family. In 2017, Granta named him one of the Best of Young American Novelists. His work has been translated into seventeen languages.
Hallberg's new novel is The Second Coming.
At Lit Hub he tagged the worst fathers in literature, including:
Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Finnegans Wake (1939)Read about the other entries on the list.
What crime, exactly, precipitated the fall that starts the Wake? Rumors abound, palimpsest-style, but they point persistently to either Earwicker’s inappropriate interest in his daughter or his fear that such an interest exists. The novel is, of course, a dream, so it would be a mistake to read any of this straight. Still, it’s possible to say this much for certain: If Earwicker is the “allfather,” the state of the next generation, what with its warring twin brothers and their dissociative sister, suggests something’s gone seriously wrong.
--Marshal Zeringue
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