Jeff Tompkins

Jeff Tompkins was born in Hartford, CT and graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Literature and Society. Today he is a writer and artist living in New York City. The Night Friends, his first novel, was published in 2012, and in 2013 he released Picture Show, an artist's book project based on an Osip Mandelstam poem. More information at http://jefftompkins.net and on Twitter via @Jeff_Tompkins.
Artistic Struggle the 19th Century Russian Way
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Artistic Struggle the 19th Century Russian Way

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 / 11 February 2014
Stephen Walsh finds the human drama in Musorgsky and His Circle, the story of "a commando unit of Russian composers forcing themselves on the attention of an unsuspecting world."
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John Updike Gives the Mundane Its Beautiful Due

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 / 15 November 2013
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The Connoisseur of Crime, John D. MacDonald, Is Shadowing the E-Book World

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 / 26 September 2013
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Her Life to Live: Albertine Sarrazin’s ‘Astragal’

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 / 10 July 2013
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Nikolai Leskov Gets His Due in This New Collection, ‘The Enchanted Wanderer’

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 / 30 May 2013
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Baudelaire’s Paris and Calasso’s Baudelaire: ‘La Folie Baudelaire’

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 / 9 April 2013