Giancarlo DiTrapano, the fearless founder, publisher, and editor of Tyrant Books, died this past week at the age of forty-seven. Fiercely independent and loyal to his writers through and through, he was an irreplaceable presence in the literary world, a one-man powerhouse of the avant-garde. With New York Tyrant magazine, he championed rising talents such as Rachel B. Glaser and Brandon Hobson, and his record with Tyrant was astounding: over the course of a little more than a decade, he published Scott McClanahan’s The Sarah Book
, Marie Calloway’s what purpose did i serve in your life
, an omnibus of Garielle Lutz’s short stories, Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life
Giancarlo DiTrapano, Tyrant Books Founder, Dies at 47
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Avant-garde publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano dead at 47
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