Am I One of the Last Living Relatives of a Literary Legend?

I have been one of those stargazers since my late teens, which is why, earlier this year, I picked up a new biography of Schulz, the first one written in English: Benjamin Balint’s “Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History” (Norton). I like biographies and have read plenty of them. But I’ve never before read one that caused me to bolt upright midway through, as if its subject had just come back from the dead.The Best Books of 2023