books about: blenholt (brooklyn company)

books about: blenholt

books:

The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg Homage to Blenholt Low Company
Daniel Fuchs

Black Sparrow Press, 2006

These three novels of the 1930s constitute an American classic. In their own way, they do for the Jewish immigrants of Brooklyn what Studs Lonigan did for the Irish of Chicago. So it is no surprise that, upon their first publication, Lonigan's creator welcomed them in a review for The Nation, praising Fuchs's keen eye, excellent ear for dialogue, and quick perception of the grotesque, the whimsical, the tragic. "I know of few novelists in ...

Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
Rachel Rubin

University of Illinois Press, 2000

In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster - a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal conflict render him an important symbol of modernity - as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist ...

3 Novels : Summer in Williamsburg : Homage to Blenholt & Low Company
Daniel Fuchs

Berkley Medallion S1066, 1965

Summer in Williamsburg was the first of Daniel Fuchs' three novels. Originally published in 1934, it had excellent reviews but a very small sale.