Dwight Garner (critic)
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Dwight Garner (born 1965) is an American
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journalist
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, now a literary critic for The New York Times
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. Prior to that he was senior editor at the New York Times Book Review, where he worked from 1999 to 2009. He was also the founding books editor of Salon.com
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, where he worked from 1995 to 1998.
His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the TLS
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, the Oxford American
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, Slate
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, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, The Nation
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, and elsewhere. He has served on the board of the National Book Critic’s Circle. In a January 2011 column for Slate, the journalist Timothy Noah
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called Garner a "highly gifted critic" who had reinvigorated the New York Times's literary coverage, and likened him to Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard
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and John Leonard
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.
He is the author of Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements, and he is at work on a biography of James Agee
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.
Dwight Garner was born in West Virginia
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and graduated from Middlebury College
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. He lives in Frenchtown, New Jersey. He is married to the cookbook writer Cree LeFavour.