In the shadow of King Saul
Subtitle: essays on silence and song
By: Jerome Charyn
Edition: First edition.
Series: The art of the essay; Art of the essay
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781942658429
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: American Novelists; Homes and haunts; Social life and customs; Children of immigrants; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: "A lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired him. In this collection of ten essays, Jerome Charyn takes readers on a tour through the New York of his youth and into the curious, probing mind of a great writer, crafting a love letter to the colorful places, people, and books--some famous, some forgotten--that have nourished him over his long and prolific literary career. Whether Charyn is writing about baseball or his relationship with his Jewish immigrant father, paying tribute to goddesses of the silver screen or the comic shops of the South Bronx, his writing sings beyond the silence intrinsic to the act of art making and the overwhelming passage of time"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-271).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Silence & song --; title: The sadness of Saul --; title: Ellis : an autobiography --; title: Haunch paunch and jowl --; title: Isaac Babel --; title: Inside the hornet's head --; title: Faces on the wall --; title: Mr. Feathers --; title: Black Diamond --; title: Portrait of the young artist as an anteater, in the Bronx --; title: Letter from Mogilev.