About the Author

Griffin Hansbury holds a master's degree from the Creative Writing Program of New York University. He is the author of Day for Night, an acclaimed collection of poems, and has received numerous awards for his writing, including two fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts. His writing has appeared online in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and Dan Kennedy's Really Small Talk. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

The Nostalgist, an exceptionally engaging debut, succeeds in part because Hansbury has built it around a small, tightly controlled set of recurring images and themes. Among them are the Starbucks logo, Freudian psychology and the dizzying interconnectedness of all things. (Trust me. It works.) But Hansbury's greatest accomplishment might be making the internal life of a seemingly unappealing protagonist intriguing enough to make us sympathize with his plight.--Doug Childers, Richmond Times Dispatch

Fully plugged into the contemporary scene, Griffin Hansbury's writing is tingling with the voltage of city culture.--Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003

Griffin Hansbury's novel, The Nostalgist, runs the gamut. It is by turns a bildungsroman, a ghost story, a social satire, and a personal psychodrama. It is, however, most saliently a post-9/11 story. More than just a quest for post-traumatic catharsis, The Nostalgist is propelled not by shock or horror but by a mood truer to the period: anxiety.--The Fiction Advocate

Hansbury's novel is a stunning addition to the budding canon of 9/11-literature. It avoids sensationalism in favor of focusing, with emotional erudition, on the peripheral impacts of national tragedies... With its quirky and appealing characters and beautifully disquieting prose, The Nostalgist is certain to pique readers long after its last page is turned.--ForeWord Reviews