Dennis McCort

Dennis McCort (1941-) was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, the "mile square city" on the Hudson, in the shadow of Manhattan. He writes of his experiences growing up there in the postwar industrial era before gentrification in his recently published book, "A Kafkaesque Memoir: Confessions from the Analytic Couch," now available from PalmArt Press and Amazon Kindle eBooks. McCort is now retired from Syracuse University where he taught German language and literature over a long career. He has authored scholarly books on Swiss writer C.F. Meyer and on the influence of Zen on such Western writers as J.D. Salinger, R.M. Rilke and Thomas Merton. He recently completed a comic novel, titled "The Man Who Loved Doughnuts," about a young professor who fails to get tenure at his upstate university and spends a lost weekend in lower Manhattan (also available from Amazon Kindle). His second novel, a psychological thriller titled "Duncan," is slated to be released by Gatekeeper Press on February 26, 2019.