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Zustiak's 'Strange Cargo,' at St. John the Divine

In a way his ?Painted Bird? trilogy, which takes its point of departure from the Jerzy Kosinski 1965 novel of that title, reveals Mr. Zustiak's quest to find his place in the world ? mirroring the wandering young male protagonist in the book.

Despite Market Decline, Still No 'Sell' Signal

To those groans this morning, I reference the book Being There by author Jerzy Kosinski. The story revolves around a simple-minded man named Chance ?the gardener? who knows only gardening and what he sees on television. Indeed, for his whole adult life ...

History-laden 'Cargo' worth the freight

The Slovak-born choreographer, with his group Palissimo, has presented three works inspired by Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski's novel ?The Painted Bird,? about a boy wandering through war-torn Eastern Europe. The hourlong ?Strange Cargo? is the close of ...

Author of Historical Novels Visits Bookshop

"And I continued to read: Jane Austen, 'A Tale of Two Cities,' Jerzy Kosinski, the Bible, 'Catcher in the Rye,' Ray Bradbury ('Dandelion Wine'), Victoria Holt, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty." Although she was valedictorian of her high school class, ...