GD Dess is the author of the novels His Vision of Her and Harold Hardscrabble. He plans on finishing his new novel, Once, I Was, next year. He has also written screenplays for J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Joseph Conrad’s Victory. He can be reached at dess@desswrites.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Elena Ferrante: The Mad Adventures of Serious Ladies
GD Dess considers the complex female identities at the heart of the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante....
Notebook or Novel? Patrick Modiano’s “The Black Notebook”
Patrick Modiano’s “The Black Notebook” is his latest to be translated into English....
What Happened to “Purity”?: Jonathan Franzen and the Aspirations and Disappointments of a Contract Writer
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel "Purity" raises questions about the status of contract writers today....
The Melancholy of Patrick Modiano
GD Dess writes about the legacy of Nobel Prize–winner Patrick Modiano....
