Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim

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Missing a BEAT Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Ken Frieden and Harold Bloom, Series Editors Fred W. McDarrah, Seymour Krim, 1961. Premium Archive, Getty Images. M i s s i n g a B E A T The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim Edited and with an Introduction by Mark Cohen With a Foreword by Dan Wakefield Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2010 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2010 10 11 12 13 14 15 6 5 4 3 2 1 The following material reprinted courtesy of the Estate of Seymour Krim: “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”; “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”; and “Black English, or the Motherfucker Culture.” ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Krim, Seymour, 1922– Missing a beat : the rants and regrets of Seymour Krim / edited and with an introduction by Mark Cohen ; with a foreword by Dan Wakefield. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-0948-3 (cloth : alk. paper) I. Cohen, Mark. II. Title. PS3521.R557A6 2010 814'.54—dc22 2009048977 Manufactured in the United States of America For my father Mark Cohen’s work on Jewish literature and culture has appeared in American Jewish History, Midstream, Modern Judaism, ANQ Journal, Saul Bellow Journal, and other publications. He is the author of Last Century of a Sephardic Community. ...