Lawrence Shainberg

Lawrence Shainberg is an author and novelist whose books include the celebrated Zen memoir Ambivalent Zen and Memories of Amnesia. His Pushcart Prize-winning monograph of conversations with Samuel Beckett was first published in The Paris Review in 1987.

Sketches of Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett discussing Buddhism

Magazine Personal Reflections

Circling Emptiness

Recalling his friendships with Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett, a Zen student and writer grapples with a central Buddhist teaching.

By Lawrence Shainberg, Illustration by Barry Blitt

Fall 2019

Magazine Society & Environment

Yasutani Roshi: The Hardest Koan

Brian Victoria uncovers the wartime anti-Semitism of one of America’s most seminal Zen masters. Responses to this material from: Robert Aitken, Bernie Glassman, Bodhin Kjolhede, and Lawrence Shainberg

Roshi Bernie Glassman, Lawrence Shainberg, Robert Aitken, and Bodhin Kjolhede

Fall 1999

Magazine History & Philosophy

Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa

A Review by Lawrence Shainberg

By Lawrence Shainberg

Summer 1997

Magazine Society & Environment

Wheels of Dharma

Lawrence Shainberg solves the famous Zen koan “How do you buy a car you already own?”

By Lawrence Shainberg

Winter 1996

Magazine Personal Reflections

Ambivalent Zen

A personal account

By Lawrence Shainberg

Winter 1995

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Crawling Towards Sitting

A Few Notes on the Endless Quest for Meditation Posture

By Lawrence Shainberg

Spring 1994

Magazine Arts & Culture

Emptying the Bell

An Interview with Peter Matthiessen

By Lawrence Shainberg

Fall 1993

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