As he did in Metropolis , Charyn once again revisits old haunts, concentrating here on the movies (and movie houses, like Loew's Paradise in the upper Bronx) that have obsessed him most of his life.

Jerome Charyn lives in a well-preserved pocket of old New York. Within a block of his home on West 12th Street, near where the grid’s order gives way to angled avenues, is a park that dates back to ...

If Emily Dickinson had wanted to make a spectacle of herself, she could have wandered solo into a disreputable “rum resort” to sit on the lap of a not-so-gentlemanly scholar, as Jerome Charyn has her ...

Jerome Charyn has written some motley, frisky fiction in his 50-year career. Among his three dozen novels are tales about a left-handed third baseman; Wild Bill Hickok; Pinocchio (who mixes with ...

It has been an Olympic sport since 1988, but among big-tiig-bucks athletics, Ping-Pong ranks somewhere between fencing and fire-eating. That saddens novelist Jerome Charyn, who is determined to keep ...

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In an afterword to his new novel, Johnny One-Eye, the prolific Jerome Charyn declares he's been writing this book since he was 9 years old, growing up as a "street kid" in the Bronx. He goes on to ...

Jerome Charyn likes to unsettle readers. For more than 50 years, this protean writer has ranged across genres, from mysteries (the Isaac Quartet) and literary criticism (“A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson ...

This portrait of Babel by the prolific Charyn (The Green Lantern, etc.) is confounding for reasons he himself elaborates on: it's difficult to know much for certain about the life of the great Russian ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Benjamin Markovits JERZY By Jerome Charyn 237 pp. Bellevue Literary Press. Paper, $16.99. You can ...