The Paperback Guy: Words from the Sidewalk

Literary Nonfiction. Kurt Brokaw is a literary phenomenon. A pulp fixture on the streets of New York City, Brokaw is a living testimony to the greatest popular writers on the 20th century, and one of the most knowledgeable authorities on the pulp genre in the country. "I've taken advantage of an 1893 local law that permits the vending of written matter without a license on the sidewalks of New York," Brokaw admits. "NYC is the only city with such a law--it was originally designed to protect Jewish immigrants who peddled chap books out of pushcarts in the hurly burly of Orchard Street for a penny a copy....People think book selling is a First Amendment right in the United States. It's not." In a lively and amusing style, Brokaw goes out to tell the history of American popular writing from the point of view of his street-wise experience.

Author: Kurt Brokaw
Publisher: Kiwai Media
Published: 02/20/2020
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781937247065

About the Author
Brokaw, Kurt: - Kurt Brokaw, The Paperback Guy, is New York City's only part-time sidewalk seller of 1940s vintage paperbacks and early 20th century pulp magazines, offering a massive personal collection built in the 1950s and 60s. He's Senior Film Critic for The Independent film journal, and was Associate Teaching Professor at The New School for 33 years, teaching literature and advertising, as well as literature and film courses (including Killer Movies: Lost Films Noir, Femme Fatales of Film Noir, The Jewish Close-Up, and Queer Pioneers) at The 92nd Street Y for 15 years. Kurt was an original "Mad Man" copywriter and creative supervisor for three top-10 advertising agencies based in Manhattan, and creative director for RCA Records. His first book, A Night in Transylvania: The Dracula Scrapbook (Grosset & Dunlap, 1975) was a trade bestseller in hardcover and paper. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with MS and BS degrees, where he wrote the UW's first master's thesis on television commercials. He is married to Mona Yuter and the father of four grown children (Leslie, Chris, Kate, Tess), and lives in Manhattan.

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