Missing a Beat The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim

Name: Missing a Beat The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
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ISBN: 9780815609483

ISBN-10: 0815609485

ISBN-13: 9780815609483

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mark Cohen, Mark Cohen

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In 1961, 'Beat' writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. Krim outlived his literary fame, but he produced an impressive body of work. This book resurrects an American original,finding Krim a new literary home.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 3/18/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Editor's Introduction




Intellectuals



What's This Cat's Story?



Milton Klonsky, My Favorite Intellectual



The American Novel Made Me



The 215,000 Word Habit Should I Give My Life to The Times?



Remembering Harold Rosenberg



Whites and Blacks



On Being an Anglo



Anti-Jazz Unless the Implications Are Faced



Ask for a White Cadillac



Black English, or the Motherfucker Culture



Success and Failure



Making It!



Norman Mailer, Get Out of My Head!



Mario Puzo and Me



The One & Only Million-Dollar Jewboy Caper



For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business



Jews



The Menahem Begin Image



Sitting Shiva for Henry Miller



My Sister, Joyce Brothers



Epitaph for a Canadian Kike


Appendix


Seymour Krim Bibliography


Works Cited


Index