American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring
Written by William Giraldi
Narrated by Stephen Graybill
4.5/5
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William Giraldi
William Giraldi grew up in Manville, New Jersey, and attended college at Drew University and Boston University. He is author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark, fiction editor for the journal AGNI at Boston University, and a contributing editor at The New Republic. He's been granted fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Oxford American, The New York Times, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review,The Baffler,Ploughshares, The Wall Street Journal,The New Criterion, and online at The Daily Beast and Salon. He lives in Boston with his wife and sons.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you read the New York Times Book Review, the New York Book Review, the London Book Review, or even Slate, you've read this kind of intelligent critical work before. Giraldi is unusually good at it, and his work is distinguished by a passion that often goes right up to the edge of sympathy without quite going beyond. He's very smart, and he cares a lot. I particularly enjoyed his essay on Harper Lee, whom he believes was obviously manipulated into the release of an early book she had no plans to release while she was in full possession of herself. On the whole, however, I'm already well served by reading the work of a wide variety of critics, and didn't gain a lot by the intensive focus on this particular one.