Roger Rosenblatt

The Story I Am


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      Copyright © 2020 by Roger Rosenblatt

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Rosenblatt, Roger, author.

      Title: The story I am : mad about the writing life / Roger Rosenblatt.

      Other titles: Mad about the writing life

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019052259 (print) | LCCN 2019052260 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Authorship. | Life in literature. | Authors, American—20th century—Biography.

      Classification: LCC PS3618.O8336 A6 2020 (print) | LCC PS3618.O8336 (ebook) | DDC 818/.5403—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019052259

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019052260

      Excerpts from Rules for Aging by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2000 by Roger Rosenblatt. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

      Excerpts from Anything Can Happen by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2003 by Roger Rosenblatt. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

      Excerpts from Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2010 by Roger Rosenblatt. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

      Excerpts from Unless It Moves the Human Heart by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2011 by Roger Rosenblatt. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

      Excerpts from Kayak Morning by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2012 by Roger Rosenblatt. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

      Excerpts from The Boy Detective by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2013 by Roger Rosenblatt. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

      Excerpts from The Book of Love by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2015 by Roger Rosenblatt. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

      Excerpts from Thomas Murphy by Roger Rosenblatt. Copyright © 2016 by Roger Rosenblatt. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

      Cover Design by Alban Fischer Design

      Interior Design by Misha Beletsky

      Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-885983-82-4

      Paperback ISBN: 978-1-885983-78-7

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-885983-79-4

      Printed in the United States of America

       for Jane and Garrybeyond words

       Contents

      1  Introduction

      2  From the Memoir: Kayak Morning

      3  The Writer in the Family

      4  Dogstoevsky

      5  May I Kill You?

      6  Everyone’s Work Is Magnificent

      7  My Bear

      8  From the Unpublished Novel: Young Murph

      9  The Writer’s Wife

      10  From the Book-length Essay: The Book of Love

      11  From the Memoir: Kayak Morning

      12  Mash Note

      13  From the Novel: Thomas Murphy

      14  Essays. I, Too, Dislike Them

      15  Humiliation, Mon Amour

      16  Nobody Is Thinking About You

      17  From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor

      18  From the Memoir: The Boy Detective

      19  From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor

      20  The Disease That Takes Your Breath Away

      21  From the Novel: Thomas Murphy

      22  From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor

      23  Fathers’ Days

      24  From the Memoir: Making Toast

      25  From the Unpublished Novel: Young Murph

      26  From the Memoir: The Boy Detective

      27  From the Memoir: Kayak Morning

      28  The Giant Rat of Sumatra

      29  Flower Children

      30  From the Memoir: Making Toast

      31  From the Book on Writing: Unless It Moves the Human Heart

      32  Form Rescues Content