John Simon
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Critic |
| Location | Mount Vernon, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I've written for over 50 years on theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, National Review, New York magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com, Bloomberg News, The Westchester Guardian and on the Yonkers Tribune website. I'm continuing my contributions to the New York Times Book Review and New Criterion. I have a PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature. |
| Interests | Theatre, film, music, literature, art. |
| Favorite movies | Persona, I Vitlloni, They Shoot Horses, Don't They |
| Favorite music | Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy), Glagolitic Mass (Janacek), Gloria (Poulenc) |
| Favorite books | Classics and Commercials by Edmund Wilson, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, The Plays of Arthur Schnitzler |