We’re the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance. Jerome Charyn Read Quote
Empire of Self’ is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the ‘black energy’ of Gore Vidal’s relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal’s angelic and demonic sides, yet there’s very little of the angel in Vidal. Jerome Charyn Read Quote
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 Read Quote
