The Way of the Trumpet

PETER JOSYPH works concurrently as a writer, painter, actor-director, filmmaker and photographer. His books are Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer; and, as editor, Richard Selzer's Letters to A Best Friend, which he also illustrated, and The Wounded River, a New York Times Notable Book of 1993. Josyph's fiction, criticism, and conversations have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. His memoir Strictly 53rd Street is a booklet in The Avatar Sessions, a Grammy nominated CD featuring the music of jazz trumpeter/composer Tim Hagans, with whom Josyph performs the way of the trumpet as a live duet for improvised trumpet and haiku. Josyph's conversation with Hagans, "Always New York Music," constitutes the liner notes for Hagans' CD The Moon Is Waiting, which Josyph also illustrated. the way of the trumpet is the first in a series of haiku novels that includes london journal, stockholm, and heroin days.