Don't the Moon Look Lonesome - by Stanley Crouch (Paperback)

Review Quotes

"Stanley Crouch's first novel, audacious and outrageous, is worthy of the bold iconoclast we know from his essays." -Harold Bloom

"Fearless and exquisitely lyrical. . . . Some of the most heady, passionate, soulful, high-flying, blues-tinged prose this side of Leon Forrest. . . . It radiates the joy of doing battle for love and music . . . [and] captures the gravity-defying lift of romance more majestically than one previously believed the English language allowed." -Chicago Tribune

"Like the modernist masters with whom he is in dialogue--Charles Baudelaire, Ralph Ellison, James Joyce, and Charlie Parker, to name but a few--Stanley Crouch has given us an exquisite meditation on Western aesthetics, the artist's vocation and the sensual pulse of urban life. . . . In Carla, one of the most original characters in contemporary literature, this complex novel gives us the portrait of an artist and a lady who quietly challenges us to rethink the meaning of love." -Farah J. Griffin, Columbia University

About the Author

Stanley Crouch has been a contributing editor to The New Republic, is an editorial columnist for the New York Daily News, and is a frequent panelist on television and radio talk shows. He is the author of Always in Pursuit, The All-American Skin Game (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), and Notes of a Hanging Judge. For years a staff writer for the Village Voice, he is artistic consultant to jazz at Lincoln Center. A recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, Crouch lives in New York City.