Garret Keizer
Welcome, and thank you for your interest in my work. I’m the author of eight books, the most recent of which are Getting Schooled and Privacy. I am also a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and a freelance writer and lecturer. Much of my writing has to do with matters of politics, religion, and justice.
Now in Paperback
From the book jacket:
Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, Garret Keizer takes us to school in an arresting chronicle of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago.
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Praise for “Getting Schooled”
“Keizer writes eloquently and perceptively… a wonderful book… More than just thoughtful, reasonable, carefully observed, elegantly written and deeply humane—and it is all of these—it is also that rare thing, a work of genuine wisdom.”
Chicago Tribune
“Beautiful.”
The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Books
Writings / Interviews
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- “What are we to make of Trump's blue-collar support?”
- Los Angeles Times (31 January 2016)
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- “Left, Right, & Wrong: What’s Missing From the Debate over Values in America”
- Mother Jones (March/April 2005)
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- “Public or Private, It’s Work”
- The New York Times (25 June 2011)
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- “When the Snake Became a Man”
- The New Yorker (30 March 2009)
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- “Why Dogs Go After Mail Carriers”
- Harper’s Magazine (September 2010)
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- “No Smoke for Camilo”
- Lapham’s Quarterly (Spring 2014)
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- Interview with Diane Rehm
- WAMU (30 June 2010)
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- Interview with Stephen Colbert
- The Colbert Report (6 July 2010)
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- Interview with Scott Horton
- Harpers.org (17 August 2012)
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- Interview with June Thomas
- Slate Magazine (30 August 2012)
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- Interview with Jane Lindholm
- VPR (21 August 2014)
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- Interview with Leonard Lopate
- WNYC (27 August 2014)
Recent News
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“Left of Bernie,” my latest essay for Harper’s Magazine, appears in the February 2016 issue.
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My young adult novel, God of Beer, is back in print on February 2nd from University Press of New England.
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“‘My First Escape,’” a poem based on an incident in the life of Leon Trotsky, appears in the winter 2016 issue of The Antioch Review.
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“Miss Capelletti Gets a Boost,” a short story, appears in the Fall/Winter 2015 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. Another story from the same series, “Miss Capelletti Makes Her Shopping List,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Alaska Quarterly Review.
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Two poems, “Bartleby” and “Before Falling Asleep” appear in the Fall 2015 issue of Raritan.
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Two poems, “All I Know” and “Dream Round” are in the first 2016 issue of Ladowich, a new venture by Chris Edgar and Jordan Davis, former poetry editor of The Nation.
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You can hear me discuss noise on the BBC World Service Forum with host Bridget Kendall, English Professor Steven Connor, and Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen.
Contact Information
My literary agent is Peter Matson at Sterling Lord Literistic:
65 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 780-6050
My publicist for Getting Schooled and Privacy is James Meader.
My publicist for The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want is Kristina Fazzalaro.
I support Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
If you would like to send me a message or inquire about my availability for speaking engagements, please send an email to inquiries [at] garretkeizer [dot] com. Thank you.