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In the Night Cafe
1989
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
266
Number of Pages
In 1960s Greenwich Village, Joanna tries to understand Tom, a free-spirited painter who despite his remembered feelings of loneliness and dislocation after his father left the family, has abandoned his own two children. (Nancy Pearl)
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
184
5 STARS
22%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
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Author

Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson
Author · 7 books

Born Joyce Glassman to a Jewish family in Queens, New York, Joyce was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just around the corner from the apartment of William S. Burroughs and Joan Vollmer Burroughs. Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac were frequent visitors to Burroughs' apartment. At the age of 13, Joyce rebelled against her controlling parents and began hanging out in Washington Square. She matriculated at Barnard College at 16, failing her graduation by one class. It was at Barnard that she became friends with Elise Cowen (briefly Allen Ginsberg's lover) who introduced her to the Beat circle. Ginsberg arranged for Glassman and Kerouac to meet on a blind date. Joyce was married briefly to abstract painter James Johnson, who was killed in a motorcycle accident. From her second marriage to painter Peter Pinchbeck, which ended in divorce, came her son, Daniel Pinchbeck, also an author and co-founder of Open City literary magazine. Since 1983 she has taught writing, primarily at Columbia University's MFA program, but also at the Breadloaf Writers Conference, the University of Vermont and New York University. In 1992 she received an NEA grant.

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