Jay Cantor
Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist, and essayist.[1]
He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. He teaches at Tufts University.[2] He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace.[3]
His work appeared in The Harvard Crimson.[4] He was on the The 2009 ArtScience Competition jury.[5]
Awards
Works
Novels
- Great Neck: a novel, Knopf, 2003, ISBN 9780375413940 [6]
- The Death of Che Guevara, Knopf, 1983, ISBN 9780394517674
- Krazy Kat: a novel in five panels, Knopf, 1988, ISBN 9780394550251
Essays
- The Space Between: Literature and Politics, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, ISBN 9780801826726
- On Giving Birth to One’s Own Mother. Knopf, 1991, ISBN 9780394587523
Reviews
To call Jay Cantor the thinking man's Tom Wolfe is a little unfair to Tom Wolfe, who surely believes, and with some justification, that he's the thinking man's Tom Wolfe. It's also a little unfair to Jay Cantor, who for all I know abhors Wolfe's politics and his fiction as well. Yet the scope of Cantor's ambition in his teeming new novel, Great Neck; his avid desire to capture the American scene entire; his crowd of characters, each absorbed in a private drama; certain thrillingly compact episodes that stand out like a prodigy among dull schoolkids; the hankering after abandoned tradition (Cantor is fascinated by the cabala, Wolfe by the Stoics); the stern morality operating just below the surface of the narrative -- all these things, it seems to me, link these two writers, both of whom ardently believe in the power of fiction to bring an American moment to life.[7]
References
- ^ http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3540/Jay-Cantor.html
- ^ http://ase.tufts.edu/english/faculty/cantor.asp
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=4211
- ^ http://www.thecrimson.com/writer/2965/Jay__Cantor/
- ^ http://www.artscience100k.org/prize/jury.html
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375713392
- ^ "To Know Which Way the Wind Blows", The New York Times, Adam Begley, February 2, 2003
External links
- "Jay Cantor talks about food", Cantabrigia
- "An Interview with Jay Cantor", Ken Capobianco and Jay Cantor, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 3-11
- "Jay Cantor. Great Neck. (Book Review)", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22, 2003, James Crossley