Daniel Gardina

Daniel Gardina’s Followers (6)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
John
1,207 books | 245 friends

Sam
Sam
1,253 books | 128 friends

Ashley ...
1,130 books | 176 friends

Leigh
2,848 books | 46 friends

Christo...
75 books | 531 friends

David K...
1,297 books | 197 friends

Ruth Ma...
145 books | 305 friends

Jay
Jay
155 books | 230 friends

More friends…

Daniel Gardina

Goodreads Author


Born
The United States
Website

Twitter

Genre

Member Since
June 2011

URL


Daniel Gardina is the author of The Last Night and The Lookout and Other Stories. A Los Angeles native, he studied English, philosophy, and film at the University of Southern California.

To get exclusive content, updates on new releases, and more, be sure to join the newsletter.
...more

‘The Last Night’ Deleted Scenes

The Last Night by Daniel Gardina book cover

In the course of writing The Last Night, I drafted over one hundred pages of backstory that remain essential moments in the lives of Ed, Alex, Ashley, Brian, and Meghan, which still resonate in the background of the finished book. Now, you get to read some of them for yourself.

These deleted scenes were not scraped because they didn’t work. Trust me, I have plenty of those. These scenes are e

Read more of this blog post »
 •  0 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on August 09, 2017 02:59
Average rating: 4.6 · 5 ratings · 1 review · 3 distinct works
The Last Night

4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Lookout and Other Stories

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
[ The Lookout and Other Sto...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Flannery O'Connor
“There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.”
Flannery O'Connor

John Irving
“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

Stephen  King
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Anne Lamott
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
Anne Lamott

John Locke
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
John Locke

25x33 MPW USC — 9 members — last activity Jun 10, 2009 09:49AM
A group for students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing program. ...more
No comments have been added yet.