(Syracuse University Press, 2010)
With author Mark Cohen interviewed by Mark Shechner, Professor of English, SUNY Buffalo
Seymour Krim burst onto the literary scene in the late 1950s with dukes-up personal essays in the Village Voice that won praise from James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer. Cohen introduces Krim's innovative subjective reporting, a kind of Jewish New Journalism, to a new generation. Krim was associated with the Beats, taught writing at Columbia and Iowa, and won a Guggenheim and a Fulbright. He is for everyone who likes writing that comes from the gut and goes for the throat.
This interview panel will be $5, but is free for all members of the Museum of Jewish Heritage located at 36 Battery Place.