Peter Trachtenberg Nonfiction writer, journalist

Peter Trachtenberg

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Author Biography

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of the memoir 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities, a hybrid of journalism, moral philosophy, and personal essay on the theme of suffering and its narratives.
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Influences

A. Alvarez, Saul Bellow, Joan Didion, Susan Griffin, Elaine Scarry, Susan Sontag, Robert Stone, Simone Weil

Favorite Books

Lolita, Pale Fire-- Vladimir Nabokov
Bleak House-- Charles Dickens
Ulysses -- James Joyce
V, Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
Valis -- Philip K. Dick
Bad Behavior, Veronica -- Mary Gaitskill
Madame Bovary-- Gustave Flaubert
Collected Stories-- Anton Chekhov
A Chorus of Stones-- Susan Griffin
The Body in Pain -- Elaine Scarry
Waiting for God -- Simone Weil
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony -- Roberto Colasso

Favorite Authors

Vladimir Nabokov
Anton Chekhov
Charles Dickens
James Joyce
Thomas Pynchon
Mary Gaitskill
Samuel Beckett
Denis Johnson
Don DeLillo
Philip K. Dick

What I'm Reading

This Republic of Suffering -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Tree of Smoke -- Denis Johnson

Web Links

Faces in the Hold

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