Draft:Daniel Magariel

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Daniel Magariel is an American novelist. He is the author of One of the Boys[1] and Walk the Darkness Down[2].[3] Magariel received his Bachelor's from Columbia University[4] and MFA from Syracuse University [5] where he studied with George Saunders. Originally from Kansas City, he now lives in Cape May, New Jersey with his wife Justine and two children Laurence and Sebastian.

Among his influences as a writer, Magariel lists Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Denis Johnson, Cormac McCarthy and James Salter.

His debut novel One of the Boys received starred reviews in Kirkus[6] and Publisher's Weekly[7] as well as further positive reviews in The Guardian,[8] The New York Times,[9] and NPR.[10]

Walk the Darkness Down received early praise by Pulitzer Prize winners Hernan Diaz and Annie Proulx.[11] It was reviewed positively in the New York Times[12] and was a 2023 most anticipated book by LitHub.[13] Booklist called the novel "a modern Hemingway."[14]. To research the novel, Magariel spent a few weeks at sea on a commercial fishing boat.

In an interview with Literary Hub, Magariel said that "It’s liberating to discover that the real pleasure of writing comes in the act itself, in the obsessive and hesitant labor, in the sustained years-long meditation, in the slow and methodical tinkering toward beauty and meaning, and not in what anyone has to say, least of all me."

References[edit]

  1. ^ Magariel, Daniel (March 6, 2018). One of the Boys. Scribner. ISBN 978-1-5011-5617-5 – via www.simonandschuster.com.
  2. ^ "Walk the Darkness Down". Bloomsbury.
  3. ^ "Daniel Magariel". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  4. ^ "One of the Boys: A Novel | Columbia Alumni Association". www.alumni.columbia.edu.
  5. ^ "Daniel Magariel – New Letters". www.newletters.org.
  6. ^ "ONE OF THE BOYS | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  7. ^ "One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel".
  8. ^ Newman, Sandra (May 4, 2017). "One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel review – a father's abuse". The Guardian.
  9. ^ Ruiz-Camacho, Antonio (April 21, 2017). "Two Sons Witness the Grip of Addiction in This Gritty Divorce Drama". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  10. ^ https://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521912696/one-of-the-boys-tells-the-story-of-a-corrosive-father-son-relationship
  11. ^ "Daniel Magariel on the Trouble with Titles". Literary Hub. 2023-10-10. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  12. ^ "Newly Published, From Young Adult Novels to Roosevelt's Court". The New York Times. September 22, 2023 – via NYTimes.com.
  13. ^ "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023, Part Two". July 6, 2023.
  14. ^ "Walk the Darkness Down, by By Daniel Magariel. | Booklist Online" – via www.booklistonline.com.