Joe

January, 1965

One day about 25 years ago one of the editors of the Vanguard Press sent me a book to which a brief note was attached:We are asking you as a great favor to read this novel, which we have recently published. We consider it a brilliantly comic book, but we have been unable to get any kind of sale for it. We would very much appreciate your opinion.The book was called Homage to Blenholt, it was about Jewish horseplayers and bookmakers in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, and it was a very funny...