Featured Artist Peter Josyph

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Featured Artist Peter Josyph Samantha Cole (bio) Peter Josyph was chosen as the keynote speaker when the University of Texas at San Marcos unveiled the inaugural exhibition of the Cormac McCarthy Papers last October. His credentials for serving in this capacity are impressive. He is the author of Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy. Released in 2010, this book, published by Scarecrow Press, includes personal essays on McCarthy's Suttree, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Stonemason, as well as conversations with critics Harold Bloom and Rick Wallach, novelist and poet Robert Morgan, and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ted Tally. In 2001 Josyph codirected Acting McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses, which examined the art of acting as it relates to McCarthy's work. His photography is featured on the Portuguese translations of McCarthy's Suttree and Blood Meridian. In addition to his work on McCarthy, Josyph is best known as the author of Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero, an illustrated chronicle of his life in Lower Manhattan after the September 11th attacks, which the New York Times called "a personal, expressionistic, almost poetic account." He directed the award-winning documentary Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero, which premiered in 2005. Josyph has worked on numerous projects with surgeon-author Richard Selzer, including Letters to A Best Friend, which he edited and illustrated; and What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer. His book The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D., was featured in American Heritage and was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993. Josyph's solo exhibition Cormac McCarthy's House has been featured in Texas Monthly and has shown in Sweden, in England, and in Texas. His dealer is Galerie Signum Winfried Heid in Heidelberg, and his work is at peterjosyph.com. He is completing a second volume of Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, and illustrating Cormac McCarthy's House, a memoir of working with McCarthy as a visual motif. Ongoing projects include a series of novels about Matisse; a feature film about Picasso; a followup to Liberty Street called Lost Worlds of September 11; and three haiku novels, one of which, the way of the trumpet, he performs with jazz trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans. [End Page 115] Samantha Cole Samantha Cole is a Berea College senior from Lee County, Kentucky, majoring in Appalachian Studies. Since her freshman year, her primary labor position has been with Appalachian Heritage. She has also served as the editor of Carillon, the Berea College literary magazine. Copyright © 2010 Berea College