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Memoir of a Catskill Hotelkeeper
Gonifs, tumlers, fressers, along with a cast of waiters, busboys, chambermaids, chefs, counselors, gardeners, dishwashers, musicians and even family-Carrie Komito encounters them all in more than a half century of presiding over a thriving Borscht Belt hotel. In this collection of stories, she shares with readers her memories, often touching and ironic, but always-always filled with the humor and vitality that characterized that now historic era.
Memories of a Catskill Hotelkeeper
Gonifs, tumlers, fressers, along with a cast of waiters, busboys, chambermaids, chefs, counselors, gardeners, dishwashers, musicians and even family-Carrie Komito encounters them all in a more than a half century of presiding over a thriving Borscht Belt. In this collection of stories, she shares with readers her memories, often touching and ironic, but always filled with the humor and vitality that characterized that now historic era.
Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen
"Sidney Offit has devised a marvelous mirror of his unique personality as well as a one of a kind tour of the New York literary world in the last half century. Anyone even faintly interested in books will find it impossible to put down."---Thomas Fleming, bestselling author of Liberty! The American Revolution Sidney Offit's charming memoir of a writer's life ingeniously reflects some of the greatest (and most infamous) literary, political, and sports personalities of our century. His early days in Baltimore (where he met H. L. Mencken and entertained Robert Frost) are as engaging as his later encounters with Dylan Thomas, John Steinbeck, Pablo Neruda, Heinrich Böll, and some of the era's gr...
He Had it Made
A warm and sympathetic awareness of the peculiarly intense living that goes on behind the facade of the world-within-a-world of the hotel business.--New York Herald Tribune
The View from Kings Point
The View from Kings Point: The Kings Point Creative Writers Club Anthology, 2018 is the product of the labors over eighteen months of twelve gifted writers, including one artist residing in a senior community. As the Preface illustrates, the range, scope, variety, and diversity of their pieces are truly outstanding. Literary quality shines through everywhere. The title is an allusion to the revolutionary, omniscient perspective called the king’s point of view of Spanish master painter Diego Velazquez in his famous Las Meninas (Ladies in Waiting), which is reproduced in the first frontispiece. We present the anthology as a memorial to our deceased beloved member, A. Irving Rosenberg. May he rest in peace.
The Catskills in Vintage Postcards
This fascinating new history of the Catskills of New York showcases more than two hundred of the best, most evocative vintage postcards available. From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication. Many of the postcards produced during this "golden age," and even some from later years, can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores and five and dimes across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history.
In the Catskills
With selections from Isaac Bashevis Singer, Allegra Goodman, Moss Hart, TaniaGrossinger, and many others, this volume is a tribute to the legendary Jewishresort area of the Catskills. 40 halftones. 26 figures.
