William Giraldi is author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark, and is an editor for the journal AGNI at Boston University.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
On John Williams’s Novel “Augustus”: A Conversation
Not even "Augustus" brought John Williams the attention he deserved in his lifetime....
The Hedonist
William Giraldi reviews a biography on the paradoxical, hedonistic, and fascinating Carl Van Vechten....
The Writer as Reader: Melville and his Marginalia
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library are launching a month-long celebration of Moby Dick, a ...
The Critic’s Credentials: On “Rotten Reviews Redux”
IN 1922, FIVE YEARS before E.M. Forster published his immortal Aspects of the Novel, the English critic and editor Percy ...
Waiting for Padgett
IN HIS SEMINAL 1961 work The Theater of the Absurd, Martin Esslin warns against reductive attempts to demystify Waiting for Godot, ...
Two Great Writers Talk about Writing
Christopher BehaWhat Happened to Sophie WilderTin House BooksJune 12, 2012256pp The Whole Five Feet:What the Great Books Taught Me About ...
Eden of Clowns
"You've probably heard the news: We Americans are a mob of dipshits."...
