From Pushcart Prize-winning author Lawrence Shainberg, a funny and powerful memoir about literary friendships, writing, and Zen practice.
Lawrence Shainberg is the author of the celebrated Zen memoir Ambivalent Zen as well as the nonfiction book Brain Surgeon- An Intimate View of His World. He has published three novels--Crust, One on One, and Memories of Amnesia--and his fiction and journalism have appeared in Esquire, Harper's Magazine, Tricycle, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for a monograph on Samuel Beckett, published in The Paris Review.
"Shainberg’s enlightening memoir about three transformative
relationships is accessible, deceptively simple, and wise."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Four Men Shaking felt to this reader a deeply necessary utterance,
one effortlessly delivered after decades of rigorous preparation.
By the time I finished it I was a fifth man shaking, and with
gratitude.”—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn
“Brilliant. And very moving.”—Mark Epstein MD, author of Advice Not
Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
“Where else can you find penetrating insights into the creative and
spiritual complexities of daily life alongside no-holds-barred
conversations involving literary icons Samuel Beckett and Norman
Mailer? Four Men Shaking is engaging from beginning to end, and
beyond.”—Rudolph Wurlitzer, author of The Drop Edge of Yonder and
Hard Travel to Sacred Places
“Shainberg has done the impossible: taken three entirely different
lives and woven them together so they form a fourth—an honest,
wide-eyed but sage narrator who can both thumb-wrestle and
meditate. The book combines humor and wisdom in an original and
totally engaging narrative. I read it with full pleasure.”—John
Skoyles, author of A Moveable Famine and Secret Frequencies
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