| Title | : | Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Bernard Wolfe & Jonathan Lethem |
| Release | : | 2016-03-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books |
| Size | : | 3116481 |
| 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." |
