Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim August 11, 2010

(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.