Anthony Giardina

American novelist and playwright; author of a Literary Hub essay on Mailer's Advertisements for Myself.

Anthony Giardina is an American novelist and playwright. His 2025 Literary Hub essay Fighting for One’s Fiction, occasioned by the publication of his sixth novel, revisits Advertisements for Myself — especially the “Last Draft of The Deer Park” section — as a meditation on literary ambition and the shrinking cultural stakes of the novel.