William Giraldi. Norton, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-07962-3
In his riotous debut novel—up there with, say, James Wilcox's Modern Baptists—Giraldi tells the story of Charles Homar, a jilted fiancé who embarks on a hilariously ill-advised odyssey to win back his beloved. Charles is a "memoirist of mediocre...
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William Giraldi. Norton/Liveright, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-87140-667-5
Giraldi makes a dark departure from his rollicking debut, Busy Monsters, with this tale of vengeance, which tracks an aggrieved man through the back country of Alaska. The novel starts out slow—and strange. Children are disappearing from the village
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William Giraldi. Liveright, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-87140-666-8
In this gripping meditation on men and death, AGNI editor Giraldi confronts the demands of masculinity that propelled him into extreme bodybuilding and led to his father’s fatal motorcycle accident. Abandoned by his mother at age 10, Giraldi...
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William Giraldi. Liveright, $28.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63149-390-4
In a wide-ranging and provocative collection of essays—most previously published—novelist and memoirist Giraldi (The Hero’s Body) examines an array of American writers, praising those who successfully marry style and substance. He draws astute...
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William Giraldi. Liveright, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-324-09135-6
Giraldi (Busy Monsters) centers this fizzy caper on the relationship between a messiahlike guru and a bumbling journalist. After Seger Jovi publishes a searing critique of the self-help celebrity Val Face, Face’s wife, Nimble, retaliates by offering
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