Sunday Stories: “Garden at the Edge of the Other Side of the World”

Garden at the Edge of the Other Side of the World by Royal Young He knew he would be kidnapped. He knew it would happen in the summer. It made sense that the blistering month in which he was born would swallow him again. He had known for a long time.   On a trip to Vermont for his eighth birthday his had parents pulled their rental car over at a garage sale. The fat woman in thick glasses peered […]

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Unlikely Routes Towards Celebrity: A Review of Royal Young’s “Fame Shark”

Fame Shark by Royal Young Heliotrope Books; 218 p. How does one greet a memoir by someone in his 20s, detailing his lifelong, methodical quest for fame? Depending on your mood, I imagine, you’d either be charmed by it or secretly wish the author would seek psychiatric help. Happily, either reaction is appropriate while reading Fame Shark: Tales of a Lower East Side Hustler, Royal Young’s chronicle of his efforts as a child to become a child actor (resulting in […]

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