The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation
@ditrapanofdn
for Literature and the Arts
It's that time of year again. Apply for our fully funded Fall 2025 residency, which will take place in Sezze, Italy, from October 23 to November 6. ditrapanofoundation.submittable.com/submit
Wrote a book about the relationship between Los Angeles and its stolen waters. It snowballed into a larger hybrid project about the end of abundance, vanishing dreams, and a collapsing empire. Out with @canongatebooks in the fall.
"Armstrong’s voice is by turns jejune, candid and ludic, but always aware of its effects and its commitment to emotional truth… [To Rest Our Minds and Bodies] announces Armstrong as a bright and singular voice in literary fiction." –@GuardianBooks theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…
“At 2 A.M. I stumbled home to our quiet street. What a crazy thing we’re caught up in, I thought. Pretending to make art. Pretending not to make it! It just goes on and on.” From “Say Nothing Nicely” by @zanscoin in our Summer issue. buff.ly/9Tti5A8
Edmund White, the king of gay literature, 1940-2025 🤍
Psalmic Fiction.
Poor Ones, a new story by Thomas Thatcher, up now clunyjournal.com/p/poor-ones-th…
"Swinging the oar like a sword into the hull, he starts it up. He goes, and he goes out, and he wants to die out there." New writing from Foundation alum @Thomas86355350 in @ClunyJournal. clunyjournal.com/p/poor-ones-th…
6 days left to apply to the Policromia Poetry Workshop in Siena, Italy led by Will Schutt and Mairéad Byrne.
Attention Poets: Foundation Directors' Guest Will Schutt will be leading a week of workshops and masterclasses in Sienna, Italy, in May. Application Deadline: April 30. Email [email protected] for more details.
Foundation alum @chiarabarzini wrote about Pope Francis and "ecclesiastical FOMO" for @voguemagazine. vogue.com/article/rome-d…
"Two weeks later, I texted you, ‘Felt an urge to txt you “I love you” & on only little Xanax and Vyvanse,’ and you replied, ‘I love you same.’" @tao_lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano in @Granta granta.com/gian/
An essay by @tao_lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano is in the upcoming "Dead Friends" issue of @GrantaMag alongside Michel Houellebecq on Benoit Duteurtre, Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Renata Adler on Hannah Arendt and other Legends on Legends...
This spring we publish Granta 171: Dead Friends. In this edition, contributors write about their departed mentors and friends. The issue launches on Thursday 24 April.
I wrote about Gatsby for the novel's 100th anniversary @unherd unherd.com/2025/04/living…
Italian translation of an excerpt of Poor 1's is up on the Substack of Fall '24 Res @Thomas86355350 thomasthatcher.substack.com/p/poor-1s-ital…
Attention Poets: Foundation Directors' Guest Will Schutt will be leading a week of workshops and masterclasses in Sienna, Italy, in May. Application Deadline: April 30. Email [email protected] for more details.
