Seymour Krim
American essayist, editor, and Beat-adjacent New York writer; editor of The Beats anthology (1960, Gold Medal Books) and author of Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer (1961, Excelsior). Mailer's first-ever foreword to a book by another writer (61.23) appears in Krim's volume; Mailer and Krim are frequent Voice-era sparring partners through the early 1960s.
Krim’s The Beats (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1960) had carried “Excerpts from The Deer Park” (60.4) — that was Krim’s first appearance in the Mailer register. In 1961 Mailer provided the foreword to Krim’s own essay collection, Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer (Excelsior, December 1961) — Mailer’s first foreword, preface, or introduction to a book by another writer (61.23). Krim is named alongside Mailer and Baldwin in Mailer’s reply to Richard Grossman in the Village Voice later that year (61.9).
In April 1962, Krim — as editorial director of Nugget — devotes his “Man’s World” column to Mailer (62.7), previewing the April issue with a 92-word Mailer quotation on Britain (“London is now like New York was in 1948”) and reprinting six of the Deaths for the Ladies (62.3) poems under the title “Art of the Short Hair: Poetry by Norman Mailer.”
Stub; to be expanded as Krim’s recurrences are added.
Related pages
- 1961 | 1962 | Excerpts from 'The Deer Park' | Foreword to Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer | The Man's World
- Letter to the editor (61.9) | Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3)