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...Misa, you really have to do this, and change that, you need to put the hair up and away,” I had bangs, and I just listened to them every day, and I tried to do what they said. I learned a lot from Suki [Schorer] and Suzy [Pilarre]. Suki used to call me “Sushi,” like “Miso, sushi!”THC: Ballet competitions have played such an important role in your career—how did you approach them? MK: I don’t think competitions...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Misa Kuranaga | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Howl’s trial as a lewd work was hardly in the tradition of Ulysses. It consisted mainly of a parade of poetry professors from nearby universities to justify Ginsberg’s sexual imagery as an instrument of rendering his vision of human experience. Mark Schorer (of Berkeley), Walter Van Tillburg Clark, and Kenneth Rexroth (strawman poet and loquacious spokesman for the North Beach literati) told Judge Clayton Horn that the language of vulgarity was for Ginsberg a natural vernacular. (Ginsberg, after a stint at Columbia had been educated in night-spots, ghost towns, and freight car pilgrimages...

Author: By John D. Leonard | Title: Free Beer and Poetry | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...conversation and strong tea made in a samovar; attending a harmless little riot on Garden Street following an alleged robbery by Harvard boys on Radcliffe's dorms; helping to found Pro Tem, which was, as its Latin announced, an interim war-time magazine. Our advisor was Mark Schorer, then teaching English at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exciting Decade for the 'Young Girl' | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...Schorer was born in a provincial Midwestern town where he grew up in the gloomy atmosphere of a tightly-knit German immigrant community. Memories of grisly scenes such as a hanging, or even the dying of his injured dog provide a bleak background for the short stories. Without any annoying psychoanalysis Schorer portrays his raging father and his suicidal mother. Even though his history provides him plentiful opportunities for melodrama, the adult Schorer distances himself as much as possible from his boyhood emotions. He brusquely emphasizes the disadvantaged perspective of a child whose ignorance left the most important questions about...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Guaranteed Nothingness | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...wife shocks him with the question whether he wanted to marry her out of social convention. He, too, has been unable to communicate his love to her. "The slightly staggering dissonance" of his own real life cries out a louder, more powerful warning than the superficial falsehoods of Schorer's invented lives...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Guaranteed Nothingness | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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