Poets & Writers

Timothy Brandoff

Age: Sixty. Residence: New York City. Book: Cornelius Sky (Kaylie Jones Books, August 2019), a novel about a doorman at a posh Manhattan apartment building who wanders the city streets in search of life’s higher meaning while confronting unlikely angels as well as dark memories of a troubled childhood. Agent: None. Editor: Johnny Temple.

IN 2013 I received a phone call from a stranger in another state. Her was a runner-up for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. (Out of, as I recall, a satanic 666 applicants.) At a time in the process when I felt lost and disheartened, this news delivered a miraculous shot of encouragement. The kindest thing I could wish for any fellow writer is to have Laurie Loewenstein in their corner.

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