| Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer: Selected and Introduced by Jonathan Lethem Contributor(s): Wolfe, Bernard (Author), Lethem, Jonathan (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1940436265 ISBN-13: 9781940436265 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.70 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |