{"id":19657,"date":"2026-02-03T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19657"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:15:13","slug":"william-giraldi","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/profile\/william-giraldi\/","title":{"rendered":"William Giraldi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>William Giraldi is the author of the novels\u00a0<\/span><em>Busy Monsters<\/em><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em>Hold the Dark<\/em><span>, both published by W.W. Norton. He is also Fiction Editor for the journal\u00a0<\/span><em>AGNI<\/em><span>\u00a0at Boston University. His criticism appears frequently in such publications as\u00a0<\/span><em>The New Republic<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>The New York Times<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>The Oxford American<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>Poets &amp; Writers<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>The Daily Beast<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><span>,\u00a0<\/span><em>The New Criterion<\/em><span>, and\u00a0<\/span><em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em><span>. More about William Giraldi:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wgiraldi.com\/\">http:\/\/wgiraldi.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25774,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19660,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19657\/revisions\/19660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}