ENGELHARD’S Guide to writing… for a world gone berserk
10. Never approach your typing unwashed. Remember, writing is prayer; writing is holiness.
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ENGELHARD: Salinger and the art of despair
The theme of despair runs throughout literary and even biblical history. So J.D. Salinger, who excelled in writing about the melancholy of human existence, mainly so in The Catcher in the Rye, was not the first to approach the topic of futility.
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JFK, Marilyn, Elvis: Trashing the dead with books
Remember, they can say whatever they want….anything about anybody…as long as that person is gone.
Details“The Prince of Dice” Has Arrived on Kindle (Jack Engelhard)
Now on Kindle, Jack Engelhard’s “The Prince of Dice,” featuring Julian Rothschild, the world’s greatest sharpshooter, a gambler blessed by supernatural gifts and such uncanny skills that it is said that he scoots those ivories for God. WHO IS JULIAN ROTHSCHILD Here
Reviews here by two of America’s leading writers, Linda Shelnutt and John W. Cassell:
Review of PoD posted Friday, April 13, 2012; 5:25 pm MDT
Review by Linda Shelnutt
of PRINCE OF DICE
by Jack Engelhard
Lamed Vov: Thirty-six Just Men: One Masterpiece of Literature.
In this novel Engelhard seriously and humbly reached to God Himself. It felt to me that this book touched God and He responded. Maybe all readers won’t comprehend that success, but I feel certain each reader will feel it.
The feelings I had while reading this book were precisely what I seek. I looked forward to the next time I could read another segment. I wanted to have more time more often to continue reading and resented anything causing me to retire too late to have an hour or more for reading. Yet I wanted to slow the reading because I wanted to have more of it left every time a lull allowed reading.
The writing style in this novel was subtly different from Engelhard’s other books which are so artfully composed, a fellow author can’t help but pause to admire the sheen of the syntax. In this book, the characters and story take over so completely there is no perceivable writing style. There is just the story and the characters.
Maybe that’s a feat beyond style, though I relish style, too.
Whatever way Engelhard puts together his novels, they work. They are enthralling enlightening reads exuding literary class with the cleanest writing style, or with the story taking all.
DetailsElmore Leonard SUDDENLY Does Imus – By Jack Engelhard
Finally, some culture!
Elmore Leonard appeared on Don Imus’s radio/TV program this morning and it was a relief to catch this author who has dazzled us for quite some time.
The interview only lasted about 15 minutes but both Imus and Leonard were in stride and we were charmed. We learned that Leonard produced 10 Rules of Writing (never NEVER begin or even use the word Suddenly), but mostly we learned that there’s more to our culture than trash. In case you don’t know who Elmore Leonard is – well that’s my point.
Elmore Leonard is proof that maybe tough guys can’t dance but tough guys can write.
DetailsMartin Eden: A Writer’s Story More Bitter Than Sweet-Jack Engelhard
Jack London wrote this novel, “Martin Eden,” when he was only in his 30s and it’s really the story of his life…about making it as a writer and about achieving that goal and about the futility of it all. His wanted fame and wealth and he got all that after years of rejection. He wanted the girl of his dreams, Ruth Morse, and when she finally came to him, he’d had enough.
Can you relate?
By the time the world caught up to him, Martin Eden was emptied out. The people whose approval he sought turned out to be phonies.
This brings to mind J.D. Salinger who (so brilliantly and so timelessly) used Holden Caulfield to express the same loathing, disgust and despair.
Details‘What Would You Do For A Million Dollars?’ (Jack Engelhard’s ‘Indecent Proposal’ Now On Kindle)
Jack Engelhard’s provocative international bestselling novel and mega-hit movie is now available on Kindle (as well as paperback). The movie “was an adaptation of author Jack Engelhard’s novel of the same name; it [the novel] was a gut-wrenching study on love, money and trust.” NPR “Precise, almost clinical language. Is this book fun to read?…
DetailsTop Israeli Editor Reviews “Escape From Mount Moriah”
By Nissan Ratzlav Katz In Escape from Mount Moriah, Jack Engelhard achieves the impossible. In a single story, a single page, a single paragraph, even a single sentence, he combines a deep, abiding love with the unvarnished, penetrating gaze of a child, gritty realism with sublime philosophy, brevity with depth, the quintessentially Jewish with the essentially…
DetailsNow Up On Amazon, Paperback, CANNES-Honored Memoir
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