Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own. Jerome Charyn crushdickinsondiscover share on social
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums. Jerome Charyn bronxcuriousfind Change image and share on social
I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life. Jerome Charyn hollywoodlifemalice Change image and share on social
'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.' Jerome Charyn bookcormacdoom share on social
