Frederic Tuten

In that capacity, he championed the work of students Walter Mosley, Oscar Hijuelos, Philip Graham, Aurelie Sheehan, Salar Abdoh, Ernesto Quiñonez, and many others.

[3] Tuten has worked as an art and film critic in various venues such as the New York Times and Artforum and often incorporates allusions to these fields in his fiction as well.

In 1988, The Philadelphia Inquirer noted that the book "was hailed as a modernist classic, with high praise from such differing sensibilities as Susan Sontag and John Updike.

Jean Lambert Tallien was a high-ranking figure in the French Revolution, serving as the president of the Constitutional Convention and a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

When eyebrows are raised by Tallien's show of clemency, Tuten describes in minute organizational detail the sometimes-banal and sometimes-bloody bureaucratic struggle that ensues.

Reviewing the novel in The Palm Beach Post, Gary Schwam wrote: "Tuten tells this tale swiftly and vividly .

Tuten transplants Tintin from his comic book confines into a fleshed out, realistic world with all its wicked, grave and abstruse trappings.

Appreciation of the book is enhanced – but not needed – by an acquaintance with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, whose characters appear in Tuten's novel.

Again, Lichtenstein makes use of the benday dot technique to depict Tintin and his dog Snowy in a near-miss with a would-be assassin's knife.

Behind the seated Tintin hangs the painting Dance (I) by Henri Matisse, which in reality is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Edmund White called Tintin in the New World "queerly beautiful" and said that in the novel Tuten "shows that by tapping the energy of Hergé's archetypes he has, surprisingly, been able to make a statement more personal than autobiography.

In his review in The Los Angeles Times, Richard Eder wrote, "In 'Van Gogh's Bad Cafe,' his finest book, Tuten has brought to fruition what I think he was aiming at in the diverting but self-conscious 'Tintin.'

Spanning 1944-1965, My Young Life follows Tuten from The Bronx to Greenwich Village, with side trips to Mexico City and Syracuse, as he chases his artistic and literary aspirations.

The author's 2022 short story collection The Bar at Twilight was praised in The New York Times Book Review: "Tuten's prose is always vital, often dazzling .

In New York Magazine: Vulture, Jerry Saltz wrote, "Frederic Tuten overflows with visionary scenes right out of a fecund and ungovernable imagination.

Done in an awkward, assured, cartoonish hand with undertones of Arshile Gorky’s teeming amorphic graphic fields, this is pigment, shape, and scene as abstract language."