Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer

Selected and Introduced by Jonathan Lethem

von Bernard Wolfe

290 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously as a secretary–bodyguard for Leon Trotsky in Mexico, a cataloger of the Irving Fisher papers, and a hopelessly inept drill–grinder, Wolfe landed his first professional writing job: turning out piecework porn at $2.00 a page for an Oklahoma millionaire. He credited his pornographic efforts with teaching him to write to specified lengths while facing deadlines: "I acquired the work discipline of a professional writer, capable of a solid daily output."

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein Schriftsteller
• ISBN: 9781940436265
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2016
• Größe: 210 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Catapult