Drunken Angel (9781936740062) (50 page)

 

San Francisco

ALAN KAUFMAN is an American novelist, memoirist and poet who was instrumental in the development of the Spoken Word movement in literature and in the rise of alternative Jewish culture. David Mamet has called Kaufman's
Matches
“an extraordinary war novel,” and Dave Eggers has written that “there is more passion here than you see in twenty other books combined.” Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has praised Kaufman's memoir,
Jew Boy,
as “astonishing…a grand epic of a memoir.” Hubert Selby, Jr. has described
Jew Boy
as a work inspiring “wonder and awe.”
The San Francisco Chronicle
called
Jew Boy
a “classic coming of age story.”

Kaufman is the editor of the bestselling
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
and co-editor of
The Outlaw Bible of American Literature
, alongside Barney Rosset and Neil Ortenberg. His other books include
The Outlaw Bible of American Essays
and
The New Generation: Fiction For Our Time From America's Writing Programs
. He has written for
The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle
, and numerous other publications. A lay ordained Zen practitioner and twenty years clean and sober, he is Dean of The Free University of San Francisco, which the
New York Times
recently compared to the Freedom Schools of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's.

Copyright © 2011 by Alan Kaufman.

 

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Published in the United States by Viva Editions,
an imprint of Cleis Press Inc., 2246 Sixth Street, Berkeley CA 94710.

 

 

 

eISBN : 978-1-936-74006-2

 

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Kaufman, Alan.

Drunken angel : a memoir / Alan Kaufman.

p. cm.

1. Kaufman, Alan. 2. Alcoholics--Biography. 3. Kaufman, Alan--Sexual behavior.
4. Fathers and daughters. I. Title.
HV5032.K38A3 2011
362.292092--dc23
[B]

 

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