Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer
Author: Wolfe, Bernard
ISBN: 9781940436265
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Mar 2016
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
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."
ISBN: 9781940436265
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Mar 2016
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
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."
