Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings

WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT TOM KROMER

WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT TOM KRONER WRITINGS BYKROMER Waiting for Nothing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Waiting for Nothing. London: Constable and Company, 1935. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Autobiographical note by Kromer. Waiting for Nothing. American Century Series. New York: Hill and Wang, 1968. Photo-offset reissue of the 1935 Knopf text, with Kromer's autobiographical note from the Constable edition on pp. i-ii. Eight impressions through 1977; now out of print. Les Vagabonds de la faim. French translation by Raoul de Roussy de Sales. Paris: Caiman-Levy, 1936. "Waiting for Nothing/' in Louis Filler, ed., The Anxious Years: America in the Nineteen Thirties. New York: Capricorn, 1964. Reprints chapter i of Kromer's book. "Waiting for Nothing," in Harvey Swados, ed.; The American Writer and the Great Depression. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. Reprints chapter 11 of Kromer's book. Note by Swados on Kromer, pp. 351-52- "From Waiting for Nothing," in Jack Salzman, ed., Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930'$. New York: Pegasus, 1967. Reprints chapter 8 of Kromer's book. "Pity the Poor Panhandler; $2 An Hour is All He Gets." Huntington Herald-Dispatch, March i, 1929, pp. i, 4. "Murder in Stockton." Pacific Weekly, May 10, 1935, pp. 224-25. 2,95 WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT TOM KROMER "Cameo" ("When the little blonde with the pipestem legs"). Pacific Weekly, May 31, 1935, p.257. "Cameo" ["Ruthie had dark hair"). Pacific Weekly, June 7, 1935, p. 273- "A Very Sad Blurb." Review of Edward Anderson, Hungry Men. Pacific Weekly, June 21, 1935, pp. 299-300. "A Very Sad Young Man." New Masses, June 25, 1935, pp. 27-28. A variant version of the previous item, likely written originally for New Masses and expanded for Pacific Weekly. "Cameo" ("She rented No. 6 on the third floor"). Pacific Weekly, August 26, 1935, p. 88. "Modern Man." New Mexico Quarterly 6 (May 1936): 134-35. Contribution to a symposium on Harvey Fergusson's Modern Man (New York: Knopf, 1936). "Hungry Men," part i of a three-part story. Pacific Weekly, July 13, 1936, p. 24. "The Consequences Taken." Pacific Weekly, September 7, 1936, pp. 153-54- "More Hungry Men," part 2 of a three-part story. Pacific Weekly, September 28, 1936, pp. 205-6. "Black Damp: A Story of the Mines."American Spectator, September 1936, pp. 8-9. Revised version of chapters 3 and 4 of "Michael Kohler." "'i934/" part 3 of a three-part story. Pacific Weekly, October 26, *936, pp. 267-68. "Too Pretty." Review of William Cunningham, Pretty Boy. New Masses, November 10, 1936, pp. 25-26. "A Glass WorkerDies." Pacific Weekly, November 16, 1936, pp. 32627 . "Michael Kohler." West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, supplementary series, vol. 24 (1974), pp. 320-58. REVIEWS OF WAITING FOR NOTHING Fred T. Marsh. "Absolutely Down and Out." Books, March 3, 1935, p. 2. 296 WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT TOM KRONER Edward Newhouse. "Why Wait?" New Masses, March 12, 1935, p. *5F . F. K. "A Young Hobo." New York Times Book Review, March 17, 1935, p. 12. Dorothy Brewster. "Men on the Bottom." Nation, March 27, 1935, p. 365. Roland Mulhauser. "Bum and Mission Stiff." Saturday Review of Literature , March 30, 1935, p. 584. Robert Cantwell. "Bound Nowhere." New Republic, April 10, 1935, pp. 251-52. Robin Howe. "Which Arrives." Pacific Weekly, April 26, 1935, p. 203. John Chamberlain. "The World in Books." Current History 42(April 1935): iii. Derek Verschoyle. "Primitive Societies." Spectator, June 28, 1935, p. 1114. "Waiting for Nothing." Times Literary Supplement, July n, 1935, p. 442. "An American Down-and-out." Saturday Review, July 13, 1935, p. 886. Peter Quennell. "New Novels." New Statesman and Nation, July 13, 1935, PP- 67-68. R.K.M. Reviewof Waiting for Nothing. Boston Transcript, September 25, 1935, P-3Kenneth Rexroth. "Stiffs on the Road." New York Times Book Review , April 21, 1968, pp. 50-51. Review of 1968 Hill and Wang reissue of Waiting for Nothing. OTHER ITEMS Jim Comstock, "Tom Kromer." West Virginia Hillbilly, November 23, 1968, pp. 8, 16. Jim Comstock. "Tom Kromer and the British." West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, supplementary series, vol. 14 (1974), pp. 120-22. Frances Gray. "Waiting for Nothing: Tom Kromer, 1906-1969." Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978. 297 ...