Christopher Castellani is the author, most recently, of the novel Leading Men. He has written three previous novels—the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love—and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. The winner of a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim, and a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship, he is the current writer in residence at Brandeis University. He lives in Boston and Provincetown.
Christopher Castellani is the author, most recently, of the novel Leading Men. He has written three previous novels—the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love—and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. The winner of a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim, and a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship, he is the current writer in residence at Brandeis University. He lives in Boston and Provincetown.
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