My Friend Gian

~7200-word essay on Giancarlo DiTrapano (1974-2021).

Granta published my long narrative essay on Gian. Read it here. It’s in their “dead friends” issue. It’ll be online until the end of May.

Gian gave me this in 2012 (I found out after he died that this is how he viewed himself IRL, according to this Instagram post):

Here’s a collage I made in 2011 of me and Gian using our phones. I made it for our Vice post “Andrew”: A Dialogue of Texts in the Year of Drugs and Kindness—a year of our text messages—his idea—read about it in my essay.

Here’s the song “ketamine concerto” that I mention in the essay, played by Gian:

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