Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim - Couverture rigide

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9780815609483: Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
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ISBN 10 : 0815609485 ISBN 13 : 9780815609483
Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 2010

Synopsis

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Cohen is a cultural critic and lecturer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of numerous articles on Jewish American literature and popular culture and of the book Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943.

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Éditeur
Syracuse University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0815609485
ISBN 13 
9780815609483
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
236
Éditeur
Cohen Mark
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