Anthony Giardina

Anthony Giardina

Anthony Giardina is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and playwright.

Career

Giardina's plays have been produced in New Haven, New York City, and Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to publications such as "The New York Times Magazine", "GQ", "Esquire", and "Harper's". His books include "Men With Debts", "A Boy's Pretensions", "Recent History" and "The Country of Marriage".

His most recent novel, "White Guys", was released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on May 2, 2006.

Teaching

He has held teaching positions at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Anthony Giardina currently teaches at University of Rochester.

Miscellanea

Anthony Giardina started his professional career as an actor. He switched to playwriting, and eventually began writing novels.
His work is particularly influenced by American culture in the 1950s.
According to the author, "Recent History" was marketed toward the "gay market".

Quote

Anthony Giardina on writing: "When I write fiction, I become the character I'm writing about, just as an actor becomes a character he's playing. You use parts of yourself, people you have known, things that have happened to you, but you're always aware that these things are being used to create a persona that's distinctly not you. Otherwise it wouldn't be any fun."

ee also

*Chris Bachelder
*Peter Gizzi
*James Tate
*Noy Holland
*Sabina Murray
*Dara Wier
*Sam Michel

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/authors/results.pperl?authorid=9972 Anthony Giardina's Random House Page]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/20/RV34782.DTL Anthony Giardina's Review of "Haunting Midnight" (published in the "San Francisco Chronicle")]
* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-03-30/books_readings2.html Review of Recent History in the Austin Chronicle of Books by Amanda Eyre Ward]
* [http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=9903E0DF1338F932A15756C0A964948260&oref=slogin Review of Giardina play in "The New York Times" by Frank Rich]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/04/DDGOBIQ33L1.DTL Review of White Guys in the "San Francisco Chronicle" by Mario Bruzzone]


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