In The Community Of Girls And The Commerce Of Culture

In the Community of Girls and the Commerce of CultureIn 1956 I wrote a novel, The Man Who Was Not With It, destined, of course, to change the world and put my picture on the five-cent stamp. I had made the real unreal and the unreal real. Amid the Eisenhower doldrums and the new beatnik mongering of self, I committed an act of magic--drawing the meaning of life out of the jabber of those carnival wildballs I loved in my adolescence and still love. Well, it got some good reviews and some bad ones...