American audacity : in defense of literary daring /

Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist. American Audacity gathers Giraldi's fierce and witty considerations of American writers and themes, including a never-before-published appreciation of James Baldwin and an introdu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Giraldi, William (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. Authors, American. Critics > United States. National characteristics in literature.

Table of Contents:

Creative destruction
Problem of the Catholic novelist
Bibliophile
Art of hate mail
Writer's immortality
American bestsellers
Single shade of grey
Memoir now
Terms of terror
Promise of happiness.