In the Shadow of King Saul
A lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired him
In the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for an equally prolific contemporary: “Among Charyn’s writerly gifts is a dazzling energy. . . . [He is] an exuberant chronicler of the mythos of American life”; the Los Angeles Times described...
A lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired him
In the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for an equally prolific contemporary: “Among Charyn’s writerly gifts is a dazzling energy. . . . [He is] an exuberant chronicler of the mythos of American life”; the Los Angeles Times described...
