Missing a beat : the rants and regrets of Seymour Krim / edited and with an introduction by Mark Cohen ; with a foreword by Dan Wakefield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krim, Seymour, 1922-

Contributor:

Cohen, Mark, 1956- editor, writer of introduction.

Wakefield, Dan, writer of foreword.

Series:

Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.

Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Humor.

Jews.

Jewish wit and humor.

Krim, Seymour, 1922-.

Krim, Seymour.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxix, 236 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer an "extraordinary volume." Saul Bellow published an excerpt in his journal The Noble Savage, and Mailer saluted Krim's jazzy prose with its "shifts and shatterings of mood." Despite such praise and critical attention, Krim's work is excluded from most Beat anthologies and is little known outside literary circles. With Missing a Beat, a collection of eighteen essays by Krim published between 1957 and 1989, Cohen introduces this influential writer to a new generation. In the Village Voice, New York Magazine, New York Times, and elsewhere, Krim pioneered a new style of subjective and personal reporting to write about the postwar American scene from a Jewish angle. Aggressively unacademic, Krim's journalism displays the "rapid, nervous, breathless tempo" that Irving Howe called a hallmark of Jewish literature. Krim outlived his early literary fame, but he produced an impressive body of work and was a tremendous prose stylist. Missing a Beat resurrects an American original, finding Krim a new literary home among such celebrated writers as Norman Mailer, David Mamet, and Saul Bellow.

Contents:

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

On being an Anglo

Anti-Jazz: Unless the implications are faced

Ask for a white Cadillac

Black English, or The motherfucker culture

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

The Menahem begin image

Sitting shiva for Henry Miller

My sister, Joyce Brothers

Epitaph for a Canadian kike.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815651628

0815651627

OCLC:

794700208