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I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

William Giraldi

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

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About William Giraldi

William Giraldi is an American writer, critic, and journalist. In 2021, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship at Boston University, where he is a Master Lecturer in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program, and an editor for the journal AGNI.
Giraldi is a contributing editor at The New Republic.