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“... Timmy O’Kane, the protagonist of Anthony Giardina’s fourth novel, lives in suburban Massachusetts and works as a salesman for an academic publisher. He visits universities and tries to persuade professors to buy the firm’s anthologies, the most popular of which he calls ‘White Guys’: ‘White Guys’ sells in the hundreds of thousands annually ...”

“... grace but awareness unlimited, Updike is the best of this cool world.’This was in 1973. But as Anthony Giardina wrote in a recent issue of Commonweal, it’s Cheever who now seems our true contemporary, the holy ghost of the trinity. His stories can be stereotyped – as postwar pre-Mad Men cocktail hour, commuter-line period pieces – but their ...”