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Encyclopedia > Anthony Giardina

Anthony Giardina is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and playwright. A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ...

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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. This article is about the city in Connecticut. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... Esquire (abbreviated Esq. ... An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly magazine of politics and culture. ...


His most recent novel, White Guys, was released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on May 2nd, 2006. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is a book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. ...


Teaching

He has held teaching positions at Mount Holyoke College and TheUniversity of Texas at Austin. Anthony Giardina currently teaches in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mount Holyoke College, (founded as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary 8 November 1837), is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... The MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a graduate creative writing program. ... The center of the UMass Amherst campus. ...


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". For other articles with similar names, see Gay (disambiguation). ...


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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."


See also

Chris Bachelder is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeneys Quarterly Concern and The Believer. ... Peter Gizzi (born 1959 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet. ... James Hugh Joseph Tate (1910-1983), U.S. politician James Tate (writer) b. ... Noy Holland is an American writer and National Book Award nominee. ... Sabina Murray (1968 - ) is an award-winning Filipino American screenwriter, the author of three novels, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. ... Dara Wier (born 1949) is a major American poet who has received many prestigous literary awards, including the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize (2001) and the Pushcart Prize (2002). ... Sam Michel is an American author. ...

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