Peter Josyph is a New York artist who works concurrently as an author,
a painter, an actor-director, a filmmaker, and a photographer.As an
author of literary non-fiction, Peter Josyph has explored various
forms of memoir, such as three books about reading novelist Cormac
McCarthy; two books of eyewitness encounters in the aftermath of the
9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan; a book of conversations with
surgeon-author Richard Selzer, as well as a book of Selzer's
correspondence with him; and ongoing chronicles, in essay and
conversation, of his association with jazz composer and trumpet player
Tim Hagans. As a writer of fiction, his ongoing projects are a series
of novels and short stories in which the narrator is French painter
Henri Matisse, and the Haiku Quintet, a series of
semi-autobiographical haiku novels written entirely in verses of 17
syllables. He is also a playwright and screenwriter.Peter Josyph is
the author of The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the
Pretty Horses (Priola House, 2018); Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading
McCarthy Without Walls (University of Texas Press, 2013); The Way of
the Trumpet (Boone's Dock Press, 2012); Adventures in Reading Cormac
McCarthy (Scarecrow Press, 2010); Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground
Zero (SUNY Press, 2012); What One Man Said to Another: Talks With
Richard Selzer (MSU Press, 1994), and, as editor, The Wounded River:
The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. (MSU Press,
1993), which was featured in American Heritage and was a New York
Times Notable Book of 1993. Along with fellow actor Raymond Todd,
Josyph recorded What One Man Said to Another as an unabridged
Blackstone Audiobook (2002). Josyph edited, illustrated, and wrote the
preface for Letters to A Best Friend (SUNY Press, 2009), a selection
of Richard Selzer’s correspondence with him. He wrote the preface
for the MSU paperback of Selzer’s Taking the World in for Repairs,
and the afterword for the SUNY Press edition of Selzer’s Down from
Troy, which he also illustrated.Josyph’s fiction, personal essays,
criticism and interviews have appeared in a variety of journals and
anthologies, including Lapham’s Quarterly, Chelsea, Newsday, The
Southern Quarterly, Salmagundi, The Bloomsbury Review, Library
Journal, Twentieth Century Literature, Medical Humanities Review,
Journal of Medical Humanities, The Arden, MD, Year One, Paragraph,
Antipodes, Southwest American Literature, Studies in Short Fiction,
the Cormac McCarthy Journal, and New York Stories. His work has been
anthologized in High on the Downs: A Festschrift for Harry Guest; You
Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy's
Knoxville; Sacred Violence: A Reader’s Companion to Cormac McCarthy;
Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy; the
Four-Way Reader # 1; Interdisciplinary and Intertextual Approaches to
Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Crossings; and 'Cormac McCarthy's Borders
and Landscapes. His memoir Strictly 53rd Streetappears as a booklet in
the Grammy-nominated jazz CD The Avatar Sessions(Fuzzy Music, 2010),
featuring the music of trumpeter/composer Tim Hagans (three Grammy
nominations), with whom Josyph also performs in duets for trumpet and
haiku based on Josyph's series of haiku novels, the Haiku Quintet,
consisting of: The Way of the Trumpet, London Journal, Stockholm,
Heroin Days, and Black Rice. The Way of the Trumpetwas nominated for
the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing.
a painter, an actor-director, a filmmaker, and a photographer.As an
author of literary non-fiction, Peter Josyph has explored various
forms of memoir, such as three books about reading novelist Cormac
McCarthy; two books of eyewitness encounters in the aftermath of the
9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan; a book of conversations with
surgeon-author Richard Selzer, as well as a book of Selzer's
correspondence with him; and ongoing chronicles, in essay and
conversation, of his association with jazz composer and trumpet player
Tim Hagans. As a writer of fiction, his ongoing projects are a series
of novels and short stories in which the narrator is French painter
Henri Matisse, and the Haiku Quintet, a series of
semi-autobiographical haiku novels written entirely in verses of 17
syllables. He is also a playwright and screenwriter.Peter Josyph is
the author of The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the
Pretty Horses (Priola House, 2018); Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading
McCarthy Without Walls (University of Texas Press, 2013); The Way of
the Trumpet (Boone's Dock Press, 2012); Adventures in Reading Cormac
McCarthy (Scarecrow Press, 2010); Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground
Zero (SUNY Press, 2012); What One Man Said to Another: Talks With
Richard Selzer (MSU Press, 1994), and, as editor, The Wounded River:
The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. (MSU Press,
1993), which was featured in American Heritage and was a New York
Times Notable Book of 1993. Along with fellow actor Raymond Todd,
Josyph recorded What One Man Said to Another as an unabridged
Blackstone Audiobook (2002). Josyph edited, illustrated, and wrote the
preface for Letters to A Best Friend (SUNY Press, 2009), a selection
of Richard Selzer’s correspondence with him. He wrote the preface
for the MSU paperback of Selzer’s Taking the World in for Repairs,
and the afterword for the SUNY Press edition of Selzer’s Down from
Troy, which he also illustrated.Josyph’s fiction, personal essays,
criticism and interviews have appeared in a variety of journals and
anthologies, including Lapham’s Quarterly, Chelsea, Newsday, The
Southern Quarterly, Salmagundi, The Bloomsbury Review, Library
Journal, Twentieth Century Literature, Medical Humanities Review,
Journal of Medical Humanities, The Arden, MD, Year One, Paragraph,
Antipodes, Southwest American Literature, Studies in Short Fiction,
the Cormac McCarthy Journal, and New York Stories. His work has been
anthologized in High on the Downs: A Festschrift for Harry Guest; You
Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy's
Knoxville; Sacred Violence: A Reader’s Companion to Cormac McCarthy;
Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy; the
Four-Way Reader # 1; Interdisciplinary and Intertextual Approaches to
Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Crossings; and 'Cormac McCarthy's Borders
and Landscapes. His memoir Strictly 53rd Streetappears as a booklet in
the Grammy-nominated jazz CD The Avatar Sessions(Fuzzy Music, 2010),
featuring the music of trumpeter/composer Tim Hagans (three Grammy
nominations), with whom Josyph also performs in duets for trumpet and
haiku based on Josyph's series of haiku novels, the Haiku Quintet,
consisting of: The Way of the Trumpet, London Journal, Stockholm,
Heroin Days, and Black Rice. The Way of the Trumpetwas nominated for
the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing.
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