Recalling “bad boy of publishing” Giancarlo DiTrappano

He lifted an entire generation of writers shunned by traditional publishing

Giancarlo DiTrappano died March 30, 2021, at age 47.

You form odd connections as a feature writer for three decades, as I was with the Charleston Gazette and Gazette-Mail in West Virginia. I interviewed a lot of people in that time. My obligation was to quickly get to know a bit of their story, then tell a general audience some of what they were…