The War for Gloria is a bruising blue-collar bildungsroman washingtonexaminer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonexaminer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Giancarlo DiTrapano, Defiantly Independent Book Publisher, Dies at 47
Mr. DiTrapano championed avant-garde work and relished taking chances on young, untested authors. His Tyrant Books produced some unexpected hits.
Giancarlo DiTrapano in 2013. His Tyrant Books published works that pushed boundaries and gave voice to a new generation.Credit.Kathy Lo
April 15, 2021Updated 5:26 p.m. ET
Giancarlo DiTrapano, a defiantly independent publisher whose Tyrant Books, long run out of his cramped apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, issued volumes that big publishing houses wouldn’t touch and took chances on untested young writers, died on March 30 at a hotel in Manhattan. He was 47.
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