Literary Diary 2020-2024

Literary Diary 2020-2024Literary Diary 2020 2024 is the working journal Tarnawsky kept while composing his final dilogy, Sebastian in a Dream and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz. It is not fiction. It is the record of the trials and the dead ends, the account of a writer reaching toward goals he had not yet defined. Its real subject is method. The diary lays out the rules he devised for Sebastian in a Dream, a text based equivalent of the music based rules of Bach's

and for the deep sympathy for the human condition both qualities carry

and a strange attempted suicide Hy witnessed at the Art Institute of Chicago five months before

Across that run the general numbers are where the press takes the measure of the field between its single-author Festschrift volumes built around Federman

Jaffe wrote them on a two-month sabbatical in 2008

one canonical work at a time

rather than lies meant to titillate

working the city as a self-styled flaneur and self-acknowledged outsider

Tarnawsky spent thirty-six years at IBM's Thomas J

Due January 27

Gerdes uses the introduction to mark a shift in posture

Leventhal the 2022 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel

a love affair