Manuscript Register
SEYMOUR KRIM
PAPERS
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Posted to Internet: October 2002
Addenda: 1986, 1993, 2003
, 2009, 2010
, 2012
Acquisition
Note: The Seymour M. Krim papers were purchased from
Mr. Krim.
Access
and Restrictions:This
collection is open for research.
Video Material: Box
8
Ephemera: Box
7, Box 8
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Biographical
Note
Seymour
M. Krim (1922 -- 1989) was born in New York City. He spent one year attending
the University of North Carolina and then had a wartime job with the Office
of War Information. He moved to Greenwich Village and began working as a writer.
He edited Nugget magazine, was a reporter for the New York Herald
Tribune and contributed essays and reviews to many publications, including
the Village Voice. Krim was closely associated with the literary
"Beats". He is regarded as one of the fathers of "new journalism"
or "creative non-fiction." He taught at a number of institutions
including the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia University. In 1986, while
teaching in Haifa, he suffered a major heart attack. On August 30, 1989, after
becoming almost completely disabled, he ended his own life.
Scope
and Content
The Seymour Krim
papers are arranged chronologically within an alphabetical sequence. Included
are drafts of his articles, essays, and reviews. There are also typescripts
and reviews from his published collections, among which are: The Beats;
Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer; You and Me; Shake It for the World; Smartass;
and others. His unfinished book, Chaos, is also represented. The
collection contains over three boxes of correspondence arranged chronologically,
including letters from Jim Burns, Malcolm Crowley, Charlotte Curtis, Fielding
Dawson, James Dickey, Robert Duncan, Elinore Eisinger, Charlotte Gafford,
Ralph Gleason, Irving Grossber, Pete Hamill, Daryl Hendersen, Milton Hindus,
Richard Hugo, J.R. Humphreys, Alan Kapelner, William Kennedy, Milton Klonsky,
Arthur Krim, Norman Mailer, W.H. Manville, David Markson, Harvey Matusow,
John Nichols, Gerald Nicosia, Anthony Powell, Dan Propper, Dotson Rader, Dachine
Rainier, Morris Renek, Alan Ross, Francis Schwartz, Michael Seide, Mark Schechner,
C.P. Snow, Irving Stettner, Gay Talese, H.L. Van Brunt, Dan Wakefield, Richard
Walton, Tom Wolfe, and Richard Yates. An index to the correspondence is available
in the repository.
Box
List
Box
1
Index
to correspondence
Correspondence
1953 -- 1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Box 2
Correspondence, cont.
January -- April
May -- September
October -- December
January -- June
January -- May
June -- December
Box 3
Correspondence, cont.
January -- June
July -- December
January -- May
June -- December
1977 -- 1978
1979
1980
January -- June
July -- December
1981 -- March 1982
April 1982 -- 1984
Undated
Lists
of Krim's correspondents and descriptions of drafts by Krim
Reviews
Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
Making It," two typescripts with corrections and revisions
"Anti-Jazz: Unless the Implications Are Faced," two typescripts
with corrections and revisions
"Ask for a White Cadillac," two typescripts with corrections and
revisions
"The Insanity Bit," two typescripts with corrections and revisions
Promotional material
Box 4
Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer,
cont.
Reviews
Miscellaneous
related material
"A Moment
of Your Time..." two early typescripts of the introduction with corrections
and revisions
"Kerouac Dies for Me in Spain, with Wreath by Aronowitz," typescript
with corrections and revisions
"Son of Laughing Boy," three typescripts with corrections and revisions
"Straight Talk to Kenneth H. Brown," typescript with corrections
and revisions
"What the Fabulous Dickie Boy has Really Wrought Late at Night,"
typescript draft with corrections and revisions
"Two Hermit Gamblers: One who Scored (Puzo), One Who is Still Playing
and Sort of Losing (Krim)," typescript with corrections and revisions
"Notes Towards My Death," typescript with corrections and revisions
"What is that Smell of Formaldehyde Coming From Yaddo and MacDowell?"
typescript with corrections and revisions
"Kiss the Blood Off My Commercial Realism," typescript with corrections
and revisions
"The One and Only Million-Dollar Jewboy Caper," typescript with
corrections and revisions
"For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business," typescript
with corrections and revisions
Reviews
Shake It For the World, Smartass
Early typescripts,
incomplete with corrections. Includes letter to the editors, William Targ
and Joyce [?]
Two incomplete typescripts
Typescript with corrections and revisions (2 folders)
Xerox typescript with corrections and revisions
Box 5
Shake It For the World, Smartass,
cont.
Xerox typescript
with corrections and revisions
Printer's copy with corrections and revisions
Reviews
Typescript of
61 pp. of work-in-progress
Material concerning early readings of Chaos
Guggenheim Fellowship material, including a copy of a statement by Norman
Mailer about Krim's work
Incomplete typescript
with corrections and revisions
Articles and Stories by
Krim
"After the
Orange Sherbet," Family Weekly. April 13, 1958
"All that Cellar -- Deep Jazz," Commentary. October 1961
"Author Michael Seide Snubs Time as He Readies 28-Year Novel for Pub,"
New York Smith. Summer 1974
"A Backward Glance Oe'r Beatnik Roads," The Little Magazine
in America. Fall 1978. Typescript of article
"The Begin Image," New York Times. July 15, 1977. Typescript
of article with corrections and revisions
"Big Drug Stud Krim from Malaga," New York Element. February
-- March 1970
"Black English," typescript draft of an unfinished article with
corrections and revisions
"Brother Dave at 38," New York Element. June 26, 1968
"Can Literature be Oral?," New York Times. July -- August
1972
"City of Children: Christmas on the Avenue Juárez," The
Record. December 26, 1980
"Diary," Evergreen Review. January 1970. Typescript with
revisions
"Diversity! Ain't it Grand?," The Record. March 10, 1980
"Dreiser and His Critics," The Commonweal. June 1, 1956
"Enchantment and Disenchantment in Dublin"
"An Enemy of the Novel," The Iowa Review. Winter 1972
"Ernest Hemingway: Valor and Defeat," The Commonweal. September
19, 1952
"Exit Mr. Cool," New York Times. November 18, 1974
"The Eyes Have It," typescript draft with corrections
"Facing Up to Mr. Fulford," Exchange. February -- March
1962
"Final Tribute, the Eternal American Soldier," New Times.
June 10, 1977
"Fonda, My Buddy," Evergreen Review. February 1971
"Frank Harris: The First Hipster," The Best. Fall 1964
-- entire issue
"Getting Wired," Soho Weekly News. September 10, 1980.
Typescript with corrections and revisions
"The Glory that was Rome," typescript draft of story
"The Great Village Typewriter Man," Soho Weekly News. January
31, 1980. Typescript with corrections and revisions
"Greenwich Village by Night," typescript with corrections and revisions
"The Hand of God," typescript with corrections
Box 6
Articles and Stories by Krim, cont.
"Harlem ist
ein Anachronismus," Merian. September 9, 1970
"Harlem ist ein Anachronismus," Der Weite Raum. August
1972
"Have you Heard About the Death of the World?" Vogue. October
1, 1971
"He Writes Like a Girl," Changes. September 1974. Typescript
with corrections and revisions
"Hipster Digs Dylan Thomas in Semi-Hip Downtown Bar," Village
Voice. November 7, 1956
"Homecoming Week End ," Family Weekly. November 10, 1957
"How Try to Finish Book Crazy N. Y. Eight Years Too Fucking Impossible
But: 10 Tracks from a Record," Evergreen Review. March 1970
"I Carry the Istanbul Fire-Easter with me to the Iowa Plains," typescript
with corrections and revisions
"I Saw a Great Man Once," typescript with corrections and revisions
"In the New Fatherland," two typescripts with revisions
"James T. Farrell Remembered," Soho Weekly News. August
30, 1979
"Jesse Frank," typescript, with revisions
"Judge, I'm a New Man," typescript draft
"Kicks," typescript draft
"King of Beasts," The Commonweal. January 2, 1959
"Literary Shootout at 3,500 Miles: New York to Malaga," The
Unspeakable Visions of the Individual. April 1972. Entire issue
"Maugham the Artist," The Commonweal. December 10, 1954
"Mauled in the Lyons Den," Soho Weekly News. May 14, 1980.
Two typescripts with revisions
"Media," Changes. 1975
"My Flag is Up," Gent. August 1959
"My Sister, Joyce Brothers," Soho Weekly News. April 9,
1980. Typescript with corrections and revisions
"The Netherworld of Henry Miller," The Commonweal. October
24, 1952
"New York 22," Galley proof with corrections
"The Old Party Watches America," The Record. June 2, 1980
"On Being an Anglo," Stroker. January 1978. Including related
correspondence
"Originality and Insanity," typescript with corrections and revisions
"Remembering Harold Rosenberg." Commentary. November 1978
"Roman Stairs Have Story on Each Step," The Bergen Record.
June 15, 1980. Typescript with corrections and revisions
"Say Bye-Bye to the Nice Intellectual-Sounding Man, Virginia, and Hello
to the Rough Tough Free-Lance Writer," typescript with corrections and
revisions
"Say Something." Magpie, vol. 23, no. 1
"Shaw: the Man Behind the Mask," The Commonweal. November
6, 1953
"Short Stories by Six," Hudson Review. Winter 1951
"Sid, Get Your Ass Out to the Sacred Mountain and Live Like an Existential
Eagle," News Act. August 1978. Typescript with revisions and
related correspondence
"Sitting Shiva for Henry," Village Voice. June 23, 1980.
Typescript with corrections and revisions
"Somerset Maugham," The Commonweal. December 3, 1954
"Springtime for Vinnie Is Not What It Is for You and Me," Soho
Weekly News. May 23, 1974. Typescript with corrections and revisions
"Ted Solotaraff -- They Call Him the Ox," Soho Weekly News.
July 9, 1980. Typescript with revisions
"There Is No American Jewish Community," The Record. January
31, 1980
"Through a Kid's Fearful Eyes," Provincetown Review. Winter
1963. Entire issue.
"Walt Whitman at Home," The Commonweal. January 7, 1955
"What It Means to Be Mex," Village Voice. May 27 -- June
2, 1981
"What's This Cat's Story?" The Noble Savage. 1961. Entire
issue
"Whitman and His Critics," The Hudson Review. Spring 1956
"Wolfe, the Critics, and the People," The Commonweal. September
4, 1953
About the
New Yorker and Me, E. J. Kah. Village Voice. July 22, 1981.
Typescript with revisions
An American Procession, Alfred Kazin. Newsday. May 6, 1984
Billy Graham -- A Parable of American Righteousness, Marshall Frady.
Chicago Tribune. June 3, 1979
Blood and Money, Thomas Thompson. Bookletter. December 20,
1976
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn. Sun Times. March 5, 1972. Typescript
draft
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut. Newsday. May 20, 1973
Breaking Ranks, Norman Podhoretz. Washington Post. November
4, 1979
Breaktime: Living Without Work in a Nine to Five World, Bernard Lefkowitz.
Newsday. July 15, 1979
The Breast, Philip Roth. Chicago Sun-Times. September 17,
1972
By Reason of Insanity, Shane Stevens. Chicago Tribune. March
11, 1979
"Celebrity Booklist," Soho Weekly News. March 19, 1980
Chez Joey: The World of Joe Flaherty, Joe Flaherty. Chicago Sun-Times.
May 12, 1974
Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs. Washington Post.
March 1, 1981. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Classics and Commercialism, Edmund Wilson. Hudson Review. Spring
1951
The Common Thread, Michael Seide. New York Smith. Summer
1974. Typescript with corrections and revisions
The Dream of the Golden Mountains,
Malcolm Cowley. Detroit New. April 6, 1980. Typescript with corrections
and revisions
Dreaming of Babylon, Richard Brautigan. Chicago Tribune.
September 25, 1977
1876, Gore Vidal. Newsday.
March 14, 1976
Box 7
Reviews by Krim, cont.
Ernest Hemingway:
Selected Letters 1917 -- 1961, Carlos Baker. Village Voice.
November 19, 1979. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians and Privileged Ones, Robert Coles. Newsday.
January 15, 1978
Essays of E. B. White, E. B. White. Newsday. September 18,
1977
The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer. Newsday. October 7, 1979.
Typescript with revisions
Faggots, Larry Kramer. Chicago Tribune. November 26, 1978
Familiar Poems, Annotated, Isaac Asimov. Bookletter. February
14, 1977. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson. Chicago Sun-Times.
June 25, 1972
The Fight, Norman Mailer. Galley proof
For a New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet. News Art. August 1979
Fortunes Child, Lewis H. Lapham. Chicago Tribune. March
16, 1980
Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger. Typescript with corrections and
revisions
Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller,
Norman Mailer. Chicago Sun-Times. November 7, 1976
The Glory and the Dream, William Manchester. Newsday. November
10, 1974
Good as Gold, Joseph Heller. Newsday. March 11, 1979. Including
related correspondence
Great Photographic Essays from Life, Maitland Edey. Newsday.
December 10, 1979
Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim of Crisis, Ralph Freedman. Village Voice.
February 19, 1979. Incomplete typescript with revisions
The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton. Evergreen Review.
1959
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry, Ronald Bayer and On the Line,
Ian Young. The Nation. May 16, 1981
If Mountains Die: A New Mexico Memoir, John Nichols. Village
Voice. July 30, 1979
In Hiding: the Life of Manuel Cortes, Ronald Fraser. Los Angeles
Times Calendar. July 30, 1972
In the Belly of the Beast:
Letters from Prison, Jack Henry Abbott. Newsday. August 16,
1981. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Jack's Book -- An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, Barry Gifford
and Lawrence Lee. Chicago Tribune. August 20, 1978
Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut. Village Voice. August 20, 1979
James Jones: A Friendship, Willie Morris. The Nation.
October 28, 1978
Joey, Donald Goddard. Chicago Sun-Times. June 2, 1974
Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties, Allen Ginsberg. Village
Voice. September 26, 1977
The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Nowell. Typescript with corrections
and revisions
The Life of John O'Hara, Frank MacShane. Harpers. February
1981. Typescript with revisions
A Little Original Sin: the Life and Work of Jane Bowles, Millicent
Dillon. Washington Post. August 2, 1981. Typescript with revisions
The Literary Politicians, Mitchell S. Ross. Chicago Tribune.
January 8, 1978
Live at the Village Vanguard, Max Gordon. Village Voice.
February 28, 1981
Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. J.G. Ballard. Chicago Sun-Times.
December 24, 1972
Maugham, Ted Morgan. Village Voice. March 24, 1980
Memoirs, Pablo Neruda. Newsday. January 23, 1977
Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer, Bernard Wolfe. Chicago
Sun-Times. October 29, 1972. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future, Reginald Bretnor.
Perspectives. Summer 1954. Entire issue
Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote. Village Voice. August
12, 1980. Typescript with revisions
My Green Age, Edward Weeks. Chicago Sun-Times. February
17, 1974
My Life as a Man, Philip
Roth. Newsday. June 2, 1974. Typescript with corrections and revisions
The New Emily Post's Etiquette, Elizabeth L. Post. Newsday.
April 13, 1975
Of Outlaws, Con Men, Whores, Politicians and Other Artists, Larry
L. King and Off Center, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. Chicago
Tribune. June 1, 1980
The Old Man and Lesser Mortals, Larry L. King. Village
Voice. April 18, 1974
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby, Jr. Chicago Tribune.
October 15, 1978
The Right Stuff, Thomas Wolfe. Chicago Tribune. September
9, 1979
Rowing Toward Eden, Ted Morgan. Chicago Tribune. February
15, 1981
"Saloon Society," record
by Bill Manville. Village Voice. June 15, 1961
The 60's Report, Toby Thompson and Fire in the Streets,
Milton Viorst. Newsday. January 27, 1980
Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins and The Tokyo -- Montana
Express, Richard Brautigan. Newsday. September 1, 1980 Typescript
with corrections and revisions
The Strength of Fields, James Dickey. Village Voice. February
4, 1980. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Talking to myself: A Memoir of My Times, Studs Terkel. Newsday.
April 17, 1977
Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese. Detroit New. April 27,
1980
To Be Preserved Forever, Lev Kopelev. Newsday. July 31,
1977. Typescript with revisions
Topology of a Phantom City, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Typescript with
revisions.
A Transit to Narcissus, Norman Mailer. Chicago Tribune.
March 26, 1978. Typescript with revisions
Under the Sign of Saturn, Susan Sontag. Chicago Tribune.
October 19, 1980
Vegas. A Memoir of a Dark Season, John Gregory. Changes.
June 1974. Typescript with corrections and revisions
Walt Whitman: A Life,
Justin Kaplan. Village Voice. October 22 -- 28, 1980. Typescript
draft
Whistle, James Jones. Village Voice. March 6, 1978
With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, Victor Bockris and
With Brendan Behan: A Personal Memoir, Peter Arthurs. Chicago
Tribune. August 9, 1981. Typescript with revisions
The World of Lawrence, Henry Miller. Detroit News. June
15, 1980
Miscellaneous Krim material
Advertisements placed by Krim
Articles about or mentioning Krim
Introduction by Krim in This Way to the Apocalypse by Sidney Bernard
Letters to the editor by Krim
Parody of Jimmy Cannon -- Nobody Asked Me, But Who Cares? Three typescripts
with corrections and revisions
Play program.
"The Green Room," Kenneth H. Brown
Playlet. Too Much! Typescript
with revisions
1986 Addendum
Correspondence, 1984 -- 1986. Letters from Garald Nicosia, Richard Yates, Raymond Abbott, Elizabeth Hardwick,
Chuck Wachtel, Ted Morgan, Chandler Brossard, Kenneth H. Brown, Phyllis Raphael,
Catherine Carver, V.J. Eaton, Peter Rand, George Stade, John Nichols, James
Dickey, Joyce Elbert, Michael Seide, John Leggett, Milton Hindus, John Tytell,
Richard Kostelanetz, Peter Manso, Gay Talese, John Blades, Phil Mushnick,
Robert Cowley, Michael Burke, Millicent Dillon, James Wolcott, Alfred Kazin,
Fred W. McDarrah, Paul Pines, Calder Willingham, Morris Renek, Patricia Bosworth,
Robert Cowley, and Charles Simmons.
1989
Addendum
Correspondence, 1962, 1980, 1986
-- 1988. Letters from Gregory Corso, Lionel H. Mitchell, Alan Ross,
Robert Friend, Allen Ginsberg, V.J. Eaton, Joel Conarroe, Waiter Abish, Gerald
Nicosia, Barbara Stacy, Leslie Garrett, James Wolcott, Dan Cordtz, Larry Rivers,
Michael C.D. MacDonald, John Nichols, Eric Bentley, Myna Sklarew, John Simon,
Avery Corman, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Grieg, Catharine Carver, James Dickey, Anne Kostick, Gerald Nicosia, Jim Wolcott, John Nichols,
and Aram Saroyan.
1993
Addendum
Box 8
"Seymour Krim: Making Every
Word Count" by Gerald Nicosia. Washington Post. Sunday, October
29, 1989
Seymour Krim Memorial Service, January 14, 1990. Videotapes
and program
2003
Addendum
Correspondence
From [Adam?], July 20, 1988
From [Fielding Dawson]. Consists
only of a photocopy of a review of Dawson's Tiger Lilies: An American
Childhood. Accompanied by an envelope with Dawson's return address.
Postmarked September 26, 1984.
From [Gil?] March 4, 1987, March
16, 1987
SK to Gregg, December 13, 1977
From [John Hutchens], October
19, 1966
From [John?], April 30, 1987
SK to Adam Schoenbrun, August
1 [n.y.] (Returned to SK)
Correspondence between Margaret
Harrell, Mark Shechner, and Frederick Morgan about the introduction Shechner
wrote for A Discourse on Hip. Photocopies
List of books donated to the libraries
by Donald Krim from his father's library
Materials on the friendship between
Seymour Krim and Milton Klonsky
Writings
[from Chaos]. Stroker,
16, pp. 40 -- 43
[from Book of Fame].
Stroker, 18, pp. 27 -- 34
[from Book of Fame].
Stroker, 25, pp. 23 -- 26
[from Book of Fame].
Stroker, 26 -- 27, pp. 54 -- 59
"Krim on Miller on Lawrence."
Stroker,17, pp. 23 -- 25
"On Being an Anglo."
Stroker, 7, pp. 8 -- 11
"This Hot Sauce Sermonette."
Swank, Vol. 26: No.1 (January 1976), pp. 32 -- 36, 80 -- 81,
106
"It Hurts." Stroker,
1. p. 3
"Start
of a Big Book." Stroker, 2, p. 22
.
2009 Addendum
Box 9
Note: This addendum was donated by Krim's brother Norman and Norman's children, Arthur and Don. Therefore, most of the correspondence is directed to Norman. Most of the correspondence is from Seymour, but not all of it is; however, Seymour is the topic of most of the correspondence not from him. This addendum consists mostly of appearances in the press of items by or about Seymour Krim
Biographical material, including an audiocassette of an NPR program "Fresh Air," and The American Audio Prose Library interview with Seymour Krim
Correspondence
Correspondence regarding the collection at the University of Iowa
Box 10
Death of Seymour Krim
Guggenheim Fellowship
Miscellaneous
Photographs
Writings
----. Book reviews
----. Essays
----. Letters to the Editor
----. Poetry. Includes an audiocassette of Krim reading from his prose poem "Siege"
----. Quotes from Krim
----. Short stories
----. Publicity
----. Reviews of Krim's work
----. Items about or mentioning Krim
2010 Addendum
Essay on Krim by Raymond Abbott. Letters to Abbott from Krim. Gift of Raymond Abbott
2012 Addendum
Harrell, Margaret A. Keep This Quiet! A Memoir. My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert. Raleigh, North Carolina: Saeculum University Press USA Romania, 2011. Gift of the author.
Two letters to Raymond Abbott, one dated October 6, 1978 in which he discussed his (Krim's) novel Chaos; and one dated May 4, 1979 in which he discusses an unnamed novel by Abbott. Gift of Raymond Abbott
