Literary Jazz Worcester

Worcester was home to such literary giants as Frank O’Hara, Charles Olson, Elizabeth Bishop, S.N. Behrman, Otis Ferguson, as well as the humorist Robert Benchley, and historian/author Milton Meltzer. Literary Jazz Worcester recalls anecdotes and encounters of these authors with the world of jazz. We find O’Hara at the Five Spot Café, the famous New York nightclub. Maximus Man Olson talks about the influence of Charlie Parker on his writing. The unlikely pairing of Artie Shaw with Robert Benchley once had a short-lived but memorable radio show together. Worcester’s Meltzer co-authored the landmark book called Black Magic with Langston Hughes. Scofield Thayer, the publisher of the legendary Dial Magazine, was the first to bring The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot to print. These are the stories of Literary Jazz Worcester. Now digitally available for $6.