An Indie Next Pick for July 2017 "7 Best Books of July," Men's
Journal "10 Titles to Pick Up Now," O, The Oprah Magazine "Most
Anticipated Books of 2017," The Millions "A unique, poetic critical
appreciation of Marcel Marceau.... A fascinating book.... Readers
will marvel not only at Marceau, but at the book itself, which
displays such command of the material and such perfect pitch."
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review As a fledgling radio producer,
Shawn Wen became fascinated by the one subject who seemed
impossible to put on air: French mime Marcel Marceau, the
internationally acclaimed "artist of silence." At the height of his
fame, Marceau was synonymous with Bip, the red-lipped, white-faced
mute in a sailor suit who conjured scenes, stories, and sweeping
emotion through the gestures of his body alone. Influenced by
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, credited with inspiring Michael
Jackson's Moonwalk, Marceau attempted in his performances to
"reveal the fundamental essences of humanity." Beyond Bip, Marceau
was a Jewish Holocaust survivor and member of the French
resistance; a bombastic iconoclast; a collector of failed
marriages, masks, antique knives and doting fans; an impassioned
workaholic who performed into his eighties and died deeply in debt
soon after leaving the stage. In precise, jewel-like scenes and
vignettes, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause pays homage
to the singular genius of a mostly-forgotten art form. Drawing on
interviews, archival research, and meticulously observed
performances, Wen translates the gestural language of mime into a
lyric written portrait by turns whimsical, melancholic, and
haunting. Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer, and multimedia
artist. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, The Seneca
Review, The Iowa Review, The White Review, and the anthology City
by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis (Faber and Faber,
2015). Her radio work has been broadcast on This American Life,
Freakonomics Radio, and Marketplace. She is the recipient of
numerous fellowships, including the Ford Foundation Professional
Journalism Training Fellowship and the Royce Fellowship.
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