Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell’s widely acclaimed novel What Belongs to You begins when an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture and meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. When the teacher returns again and again to see Mitko over the next few months, they find themselves in a relationship that is mutually predatory, where tenderness can transform into violence at any moment. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences.

Garth Greenwell will be in-conversation with Kevin Killian.

Garth Greenwell is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space.

Kevin Killian is a San Francisco novelist and poet. Recent books include PINK NARCISSUS POEMS (The Song Cave); EYEWITNESS by Carolyn Dunn, the memoirs of a Beat Generation legend “as told to” Kevin Killian (Granary Books); and TAGGED, a collection of Killian’s intimate photographs of artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, etc.