Paladin of Literary Agon: A Conversation with Harold Bloom
On the daemonic powers of memory and the blessings of great literature.
On the daemonic powers of memory and the blessings of great literature.
William Giraldi speaks with Daniel Baxter, author of “One Life at a Time: An American Doctor’s Memoir of AIDS in Botswana.”
William Giraldi, author of “American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring,” presents his critical ars poetica.
Steve Almond talks to William Giraldi about what the hell happened.
Not even "Augustus" brought John Williams the attention he deserved in his lifetime.
William Giraldi reviews a biography on the paradoxical, hedonistic, and fascinating Carl Van Vechten.
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library are launching a month-long celebration of Moby Dick, a way to encourage...
IN 1922, FIVE YEARS before E.M. Forster published his immortal Aspects of the Novel, the English critic and editor Percy Lubbock published The Craft...
IN HIS SEMINAL 1961 work The Theater of the Absurd, Martin Esslin warns against reductive attempts to demystify Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s...
Christopher BehaWhat Happened to Sophie WilderTin House BooksJune 12, 2012256pp The Whole Five Feet:What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death...
"You've probably heard the news: We Americans are a mob of dipshits."