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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825956003321

Autore

Krim Seymour <1922->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8156-5162-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

Disciplina

808.882089924

Soggetti

Jews - United States

Jewish wit and humor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.