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 ...

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 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 ...

Jerome Charyn's latest novel, Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution begins in 1776 with Gen. George Washington sparing the book's protagonist from the noose. From NPR News, this is ALL ...

AMERICAN SCRAPBOOK by Jerome Charyn. Ml pages. Viking. $4.95. Not the least of the novelist’s functions is to serve as a moral bookkeeper, making all those entries on the liability side of the ledger ...

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 ...

Who wouldn’t want to grow old like Jerome Charyn? Now in his 80s, the prolific writer seems ever more daring. With “The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson” (2010), he snuck into the bedroom of the Belle ...

‘For a long time,” Jerome Charyn confesses in the author’s note to this collection of short stories, “I couldn’t go back to the Bronx. It felt like a shriek inside my skull or a wound that had been ...