Tag: T.S. Eliot

  • Writers & Day Jobs

    For my January article in Full Stop I wrote about writers and day jobs with a little intro about T.S. Eliot and his years working as a clerk at Lloyd’s bank in London. I couldn’t have imagined the interest that the article generated across the Internet over the last week and a half. There are…

  • William Giraldi: Tough-Love Critic

    A new essay or book review by critic William Giraldi has become something of an event. In a world where bloggers discuss how they “feel” about a book, and the online literati praise every new novel as if it were Ulysses, Giraldi has become the adult in the room, reminding us what true criticism can…