Check out hard copy of The Chronicle Review (Section B of The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 17, 2007) for a beautiful two-page spread featuring paintings and excerpts from They Called Me Mayer July on pp. 14 and 15. Read it online here: "A Father Tells His Story," by Jean Tamarin.
Quoting from "A Daughter's Afterword": "'What resulted is more picaresque than bildungsroman. They Called Me Mayer July is episodic: It is made up of spare anecdotes told in the 'realm of living speech,' digressions into the practical workings of the world. ... This is Walter Benjamin's art of the storyteller, 'the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story.' "
The two-page color spread is beautiful. Click here here for pdf.
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