State of Utah Award for the Novel

State of Utah Award for the Short Story

Pushcart Prize Nominee

The National Book Award

Critics Book Circle Award

American Library Association Most Notable Book Award

PEN International Award for Fiction

Dissertation: Loop’s Progress, a novel (published by Weidenfeld-Grove, New York, 1986, Harper Perennial, 1987, the first creative dissertation published in the USA)

Toward philosophy Ph.D.
Concentration: American Philosophy, Semiotics, Asian Philosophy

Concentration: American Philosophy, Sociological Theory, Asian Philosophy
Language: French

Beyond Baroque

Associated Writing Programs

1in6

Prague Summer Writing Institute

Numerous Articles in Magic Journalism and Animal Consciousness

The Legend of La Diosa is Chuck Rosenthal’s rollicking paean to love, love, love. His story tells us why, when you meet someone you love, you feel as though you’ve known her/him forever. It’s because that’s exactly what’s happening, you have known that person forever, and journeyed headlong to be face to face at last.     Rosenthal’s story defies summation but asks the question, “What do you do when you live in the grip of a love you’ve yet to meet – and it’s real.” His language cavorts as he spins his audacious tale to focus on happiness as a value. Not many writers dare this because happiness is damned hard to write (and because writers famously now little about it).     Fortunately, Chuck Rosenthal knows happiness in love and has lived to tell the tale – the tale of the legend of La Diosa.

The Legend of La Diosa

Restored to the author's original version, Loop's Progress is the first of The Loop Trilogy. An uproarious novel about coming-of-age that reflects the gritty reality of modern urban America.

Loop's Progress

Restored to the author's original version, Experiments in Life and Deaf is the second book in The Loop Trilogy.  It's a brilliant, hyper-real vision of coming of age in working-class America.

Experiments With Life and Deaf

Newly restored to the author's original version and for the first time in softcover, Loop's End complete's Chuck Rosenthal's magnificent Loop Trilogy.  Here is the final book in the hilarious and often moving saga of the slightly bent working-classs American family, the Loops.

Loop's End

When an urban-reared Elena journeys to the open spaces of  Wyoming to visit her widowed grandfather, a special relationship  develops between her and the stallion her grandmother trained, and when  she gets caught in a desperate situation, she needs that relationship.  Reprint.

Elena of the Stars

In his latest novel, Chuck Rosenthal brings Jack Kerouac back from the dead, creating a posthumous novel in the voice of the legendary beat novelist.  On the road again, Kerouac is back to deliver the message of death's existential loneliness, only made worse by what he finds on his return to compare it to.  Rosenthal carries off the ambitious task, writing great lyrical passages, full of word play, neologism, compression, scatting, and riffs. He never forgets that Kerouac the free spirit was also Kerouac the writer. 

Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel: His Last Novel

Fiction. Flash Fiction. A short volume of Flash Fiction noir stories in which every line has been taken from a noir movie of the '40s and '50s.

The Shortest Farewells are the Best

Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

LMU news and events are found at: www.lmu.edu/news.

Loyola Marymount University

Intro to Fiction

Language of Fiction

Narrative and Narrative Theory

StreetWrite

Chuck Rosenthal was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College, Bowling Green State University, SUNY Buffalo, and the University of California, Davis, where he got several advanced degrees. He got his Ph.D in English and American Literature with emphasis in creative writing and narrative theory from the University of Utah. 

Rosenthal is the author of eight novels: the Loop Trilogy, Loop’s Progress, Experiments with Life and Deaf, and Loop’s End; Elena of the Stars; Avatar Angel, the Last Novel of Jack Kerouac; My Mistress Humanity; The Heart of Mars; Coyote O’Donohughe’s History of Texas. His novels The Legend of La Diosa and You Can Fly will be published in 2016 and 2017 respectively. He has published a memoir, Never Let Me Go, and most a travel book, Are We Not There Yet? Travels in Nepal, North India, and Bhutan (Magic Journalism). He has co-authored two books with Gail Wronsky: Tomorrow You’ll Be One of Us (sci-fi poems) The Shortest Farewells Are the Best (noir flash fiction). 

He’s published in numerous magazines and read and lectured to live audiences and on television and radio throughout the U.S. as well as in Mexico and Argentina. 

Rosenthal first moved to northern California in 1978 and has lived in Los Angeles since 1986. He began riding horses in 1994 at the age of 43 and purchased his first horse, Jackie O, an Arab-Thoroughbred bay mare in 1995. She died on January 17, 2009, at the age of 22. 

His new horse, purchased in July of 2010, La Femme Nikkita, is a Buckskin Morgan mare, now age 10. He tries to ride six days a week.

Rosenthal played basketball in college and learned to surf upon arriving in LA. He crossed Canada and the U.S. on a 400 Suzuki in 1982, but stopped motorcycling last year. Besides horseback riding he enjoys running with his dog, and swimming. Rosenthal lives in Topanga Canyon with his partner, the poet Gail Wronsky. Their daughter, Marlena Dali, moved to Sydney, Australia in August 2010 to pursue her career in performance art. Rosenthal teaches narrative writing and theory at Loyola Marymount University. He is the manager of the Glass Table Artists‘ Collective and Managing Editor of What Books Press.

Fiction

Narrative

Narrative Theory

Magic Journalism

Animal Consciousness

Jack Kerouac and the Beats

Virginia Woolf

Ernest Hemingway

English

French: reading proficiency

Spanish: reading proficiency

Personal Website

What is Magic Journalism

What Books Press

Sparrow  Crow

The Heart of Mars  novel teaser

Magic Journalism in L.A.

LMU Summer Research Grants

BCLA College Fellowship

Professor Emeritus of English

Author Chuck Rosenthal talks about the difficulties of writing his new novel, THE HEART OF MARS, and what his friend, famed novelist William Gass, told him to do.
THE HEART OF MARS is available on amazon.com and hollyridgepress.com.

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