The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack

by Pollack, Neal

• ISBN13: 9780060004538
• ISBN10: 0060004533
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-19
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Neal Pollack has been the Greatest Living American Writer across six decades, seven continents, and ten wives. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award (twice), and the Premio Simon Bolivar for contributions to the people's struggle in Latin America. In 1985, Pollack's writing was declared "beyond our meager standards" by the Swedish Academy With the publication of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, the definitive collection of his work in English, a new generation of readers is set to discover nothing less than the ultimate meaning of human existence on earth. This astonishing work of fictitious nonfiction, the funniest and most creatively styled postmodernist confection of its time, has been universally praised as the best book ever written except for maybe Don Quixote and The Shipping News. The Anthology -- now expanded, updated, and thoroughly repaginated -- answers, once and for all, the question that has plagued American society in general, and literary critics in particular, since Neal Pollack was born: "Who is Neal Pollack?" At last, we know.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Publishing Notes	xi
Preface to the Perennial Edition: Confessions of a Hard-Core Heroin User	xiii
Introduction	xv
Chronology	xix
The Albania of My Existence	1	(2)
DateLine: Colombia	3	(4)
I am Friends with a Working-Class Black Woman	7	(6)
It is Easy to Take a Lover in Cuba	13	(6)
Memories of Times Square	19	(4)
Portrait of An Andalusian Horse Trainer	23	(4)
The Burden of Internet Celebrity	27	(4)
Interlude: The Oprah Winfrey Show, March 15, 1996	31	(6)
My Week at Sea	37	(6)
Blurbs [And Footnote to Blurbs]	43	(4)
Letter from Paris	47	(4)
A Country House in the Country	51	(4)
I Have Slept with Five Hundred Women	55	(2)
Introduction to the New Slavery [Footnote: The Review, Etc.]	57	(10)
Stand by John	67	(4)
A Doctor Cannot Save Your Life	71	(4)
An Interview with My Sister, Who Is a Lesbian	75	(6)
Lake Minnesota Days	81	(4)
To Search for the Celtic Tiger	85	(6)
The Rise and Fall of the New Economy	91	(4)
Interlude: The Pollack-Wilson Letters	95	(6)
Teenagers: The Enemy Within [Footnote: About Tennis]	101	(16)
Interlude: The Paris Review Interview, June 27, 1976	117	(8)
The Coitus Chronicles: A Trilogy in Three Acts	125	(12)
The Subcomandante Rides at Dawn	137	(12)
One Writer's Routine	149	(4)
Why Am I So Handsome?	153	(10)
The First Annual New York University Neal Pollack Chair in American Literature Lecture	163	(4)
Witness for the Revolution	167	(8)
Secrets of the Mystery Jew	175	(8)
Coda: A Review of my Contemporaries	183	(6)
Breaking News: One Against the Taliban	189	(12)
Study Guide	201