Nathan Kernan on James Schuyler in conversation with Brad Gooch

Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O’Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, was an original member of the so-called New York School of poetry. Schuyler’s poetry embodies the quiet beauties of the natural world and the mundane stuff of everyday existence, even as his own life was often messy and troubled. In A Day Like Any Other, Kernan explores this and other paradoxes of Schuyler’s singular life within the vibrant milieu of mid-century New York’s poets and painters.

Nathan Kernan is the editor of The Diary of James Schuyler. He lives in New York.

Brad Gooch is a poet, novelist, and biographer. His latest book Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring was a National Bestseller; a New York Times Book Critics' Favorite Book of the Year; a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and a Booklist Top 10 Art Books of the Year. His previous books include:Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love; Rumi: Unseen Poems (trans. Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz, Everyman's Library); Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & The 70s and the 80s; Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller; and City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara. He lives New York City.

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