I once saw Garth Greenwell speak at a panel called ”The Sexuality of Textuality” alongside Lidia Yuknavitch, Carmen Maria Machado, and Alexander Chee. Even among that absolute meeting of the minds, Greenwell stood out—he had a gentle, slightly reserved presence on stage, but spoke with astounding poetry and precision. I clung to every word. If you're anything like me (stuck at 26th in line for Greenwell's new novel, Small Rain, at the library), consider this conversation a reading pregame. He'll chat about Small Rain with Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of What Never Leaves.