Royal Young
Royal Young's debut memoir Fame Shark will be released June 2013 from Heliotrope Books. Young contributes to Interview Magazine, New York Post, BOMB Magazine and The Lo Down.
Articles by Royal Young
Crossing Delancey: Royal Young on Lee Brozgold
My father’s artwork was always how I made sense of the world around me. The sometimes scary, ghetto Lower East ...
From Shtetl to Star: A Jewish Tradition of Changing Names
I changed my name from Hazak Brozgold to Royal Young when I was 20 years old. I was a drunk ...
Famous Roots: An Interview With My Babbi and Zayde
My maternal grandmother fought to escape her Lower East Side. My Babbi was born in 1932 and raised on Pitt ...
My Family’s Reaction to Fame Shark
“I sound like a cheap, mean kyke,” my father raged. “I sound like an idiot, a complete non-entity,” my mother ...