Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer: Selected and Introduced by Jonathan Lethem

by Bernard Wolfe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940436265
• ISBN13: 9781940436265
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"