Episode 332 — William Giraldi

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2014

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

William Giraldi is the guest. His latest novel, Hold the Dark, is now available from Liveright Publishing. The New York Times Book Review calls it “[F]ierce, extraordinary…. Hold the Dark is an unnerving and intimate portrayal of nature gone awry. It’s all but bereft of levity, spectacularly violent and exquisitely written.” And the Boston Globe says “Maybe it all began with Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock in 1938, but there is a variety of modern thriller, created these days by Robert Stone and Denis Johnson at their best, that delivers narrative thrust and beautifully composed sentences by the pageful even as it peels away the thin membrane that separates entertainment from art, and nature from civilization. Here’s Boston writer William Giraldi adding to the slender ranks of such masterly fiction… [Hold the Dark] certainly stands out as one of the decade’s best books of its kind, and one that deserves, because of its stylish flaunting of some of our darkest fears, a future readership.” Monologue topics: holiday gift ideas, the holidays, capitalist orgies, bad attitudes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.3	Gee, stated what a struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. Right. All right, folks, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is somehow getting through to you. This is probably not being listened to by the National Security Agency. Hello, have I already said that one, the National Security Agency?
1:16.7	I'm now feeling like I just said that recently. So, anyway, how's it going? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles.
1:24.1	Thank you for tuning in, especially if you're at the National Security Agency.
1:28.6	I appreciate you being here.
1:30.2	My guest today is William Giraldi.
1:32.6	He is a sometimes controversial literary critic and the author of a new novel called Hold the Dark,
1:40.9	which is available now from Liverite Press.
1:43.2	I'm going to be talking to Mr. Giraldi in just a second.
1:48.4	Today is November 23rd, 2014.
1:51.4	That's the day when this episode officially rolls out into the world, which means that
1:57.1	we're coming up against Thanksgiving.
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