Four Men, Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher...

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Lawrence Shainberg

Four Men, Shaking

Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher

Lawrence Shainberg

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Shambhala Publications Inc
16 July 2019

Biography: general

From Pushcart Prize-winning author Lawrence Shainberg, a funny and powerful memoir about literary friendships, writing, and Zen practice.

Due to what he calls his ""inexplicably good karma,"" writer Lawrence Shainberg's life has been filled with relationships with legendary writers and renowned Buddhist teachers. In this engaging memoir, Shainberg weaves together the narratives of three of these relationships- his literary friendships with Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, and his long teacher-student relationship with the Japanese Zen master Kyudo Nakagawa. In Shainberg's lifelong pursuit of both writerly success and Zen equanimity, each of these men come to represent an important aspect of his experience. The brash, combative Mailer becomes a symbol in Shainberg's mind for the Buddhist concept of ""form,"" while the elusive and self-deprecating Beckett seems to him to embody ""emptiness."" Through it all is Nakagawa, the earthy, direct Zen teacher continuously encouraging Shainberg to let go of his endless rumination and accept the present as it is.

By: Lawrence Shainberg
Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781611807295
ISBN 10: 1611807298
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 16 July 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Four Men, Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher

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 and The Feral Detective 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. --John Skoyles, author of A Moveable Famine and Secret Frequencies: A New York Education