Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire.
Francisco Goldman's Books
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War and Peace: Original Version
This is the book I most want to read again for the first time.
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The Ordinary Seaman (0)
The Ordinary Seaman, Francisco Goldman’s second novel, is an exquisitely written story of hope, despair, and the promise of love. Published to unparalleled critical attention, including four starred advance reviews and praise from almost every major newspaper in the country, The Ordinary Seaman confirmed Goldman as one …
The Long Night of White Chickens (0)
Francisco Goldman won accolades and international recognition with his extraordinary first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens, the winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. A best-selling paper-back for the Atlantic Mon…
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (0)
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, d…
Heartbreak Tango (0)
Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig’s Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies. This melancholy and hilarious tango concerns the many women in orbit arou…
Say Her Name (0)
Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body-surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura’s death by her family and blaming hi…
