Allen Shawn, the author of Wish I Could Be There, is (1) a multiphobic middle-aged man; (2) the son of legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn; and (3) a composer. In that order, judging from his jittery, brittle mix of the scientifically factual and the personal.
Telling Words
''Overall I believe that the tensions and paradoxes of [my father's]nature were rather successfully balanced as if in some kind of psychic
isometric exercise.''
Lowdown
Diagnosis: borderline autobiographobia.
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