Event Listing - Literary Arts

Thu Nov 1, 2007

BJE Jewish Community Library

Missing a Beat: The Curious Case of Seymour Krim

A Talk by Mark Cohen

Tel. 415-567-3327 ext 703
Email Missing a Beat: The Curious Case of Seymour Krim
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Location	Date and Time
BJE Jewish Community Library 1835 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA 94115 map cross street: Pierce Street district: Japantown/Fillmore	Thu Nov 1, 2007 (7:30 pm) - Free program; free parking at the Pierce St. entrance

Description

Seymour Krim, editor of one of the best known Beat anthologies, The Beats (1960), has himself been left out of nearly every recent Beat collection. The reason for this may have been Krim's endless wrestling with his Jewish identity. Krim was unhappily Jewish, but he wrote about it with great candor and hilarious black humor. Mark Cohen rescues this forgotten Beat from oblivion.