Anatole Broyard
Overview
The New York Times
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. In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays and two books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works, Intoxicated by My Illness (1992) and Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993), were published after his death.
After his death, Broyard became the center of controversy and discussions related to how he had chosen to live as an adult in New York.
Quotations
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.
New York Times 16th March 1973
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
‘Wisdom of Aphorisms’, New York Times, 30th April 1983
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987
A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.
‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987