Jerome Charyn on Emmy award-winning "Secrets of New York: Speakeasies"

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Jerome Charyn is an award-winning American author. With nearly 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life. Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature." New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac,"and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers." Since the 1964 release of Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published 30 novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, two books about film, short stories, plays and works of non-fiction. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year. Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. Charyn was Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University of Paris until he left teaching in 2009. In addition to his writing and teaching, Charyn is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top 10 percent of players in France. Noted novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn's book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, "The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong." Charyn lives in Paris and New York City.

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> Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil: "Talking Baseball with Ed Randall", on WFAN radio aired Sunday July 17th

> Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil: "Remember When" aired Saturday morning July 16th on the Sirius/XM satellite network, co-hosts Ed Randall and Rico Petrocelli

> Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil: Richard Miller ("Miller on Sports") - aired Tuesday, July 12th on Jacksonville FL Talk Radio station (WBOB 600)

> June 2 at 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street – Jerome Charyn discusses "Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil"

> March 31 ON "Think" – the premier Dallas interview show, Jerome Charyn is the LIVE guest from 2:00 to 3:00 PM EDT

> March 23 (tapes) ON NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" – watch this space for air date & time.

> March 22 ON "The Advocate" – WHK-AM, Cleveland, Jerome Charyn is the guest of Host Nick Phillips

> February 25 ON "The Rude Awakening" morning show on WOCM Maryland – Jerome Charyn is the morning drive-time guest

> February 24 ON "All Night with Joey Reynolds" – Jerome Charyn is the midnight guest on the new NBC Affiliate Network

> February 22 ON "Off the Bench with Whiskey & Randy" – Jerome Charyn is the LIVE guest at 5:10 PM on WOSC-ESPN Maryland