Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

By Michael Greenberg

Book Overview

Michael Greenberg entertainingly chronicles the hardships, delights, and moral dilemmas of being a writer and a New Yorker in this "darkly comic" essay collection (The New York Review of Books).

To eke out a living, Greenberg doctors doomed movie scripts, peddles cosmetics on the street, and waits tables at a posh restaurant, all while raising his son on the Lower East Side. Along the way, he meets a host of fascinating city characters, including a Holocaust survivor, a repentant communist, and rats who behave like humans.

Hilarious and bittersweet, Greenberg's stories invite us into a world where the familial, the literary, the tragic, and the mundane not only speak to one another, but deeply enjoy the exchange.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307740676
• ISBN13: 9780307740670
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"