William Giraldi
William Giraldi is author of the novels Busy Monsters, Hold the Dark (now a Netflix film), and About Face, the memoir The Hero's Body, and a collection of literary criticism, American Audacity (all published by W.W. Norton). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and is Master Lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University.
“For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.”
William Giraldi
“I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.”
William Giraldi
“Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.”
William Giraldi
“Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn’t a schlep fruitily duped by Eve. He turned his back on God because he knew that a paradise without her was no paradise at all.”
William Giraldi
“Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down south to kill a man.”
William Giraldi
“I'm a whole lot of God-help-us is what I am.”
William Giraldi
“But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical.”
William Giraldi
“Please quiet your strange self lest harm come to you.”
William Giraldi