Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.
Tom BissellTo create anything โ whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom โ is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic โ which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.
Tom Bissell