Tag: Jerzy Kosinski

  • Jerzy’s many masks: A review of “Oral Pleasure:Kosinski as Storyteller”

    Jerzy’s many masks: A review of “Oral Pleasure:Kosinski as Storyteller”

    Reviewed in this essay: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller. Edited by Kiki Kosinski. Grove Press, 2012. Years ago, when my reading tastes were largely defined by whatever contained the most explicit sex, I devoured the novels of Jerzy Kosinski. I had other sources—Henry Miller, Philip Roth, and Martin Amis—but there was something especially creepy and seductive…