Time's Wallet

by Steve Katz

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. TIME'S WALLET is a memoir written in discrete pieces, "Memoirrhoids." The 54 short bits cover the variety and extent of a life from 1935 to the present, from Manhattan by various routes to Denver, Colorado. The work presents itself not as a narrative arc, but as memory itself occurs, in brief stories rising more or less at random in the mind. Each remembered narrative is allowed to resolve itself through its own form, and that variety creates a different overall texture. Each of the "stories" is transparent in itself, but they add up to a fertile opacity that is the ineluctable vitality of a life, and the impenetrable presence, the "here it is," of art.

The Compleat Memoirrhoids: 137.n was published by Starcherone Books in 2013.

184 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2010

About the author

Steve Katz (May 14, 1935 – August 4, 2019) was an American writer. He is considered an early post-modern or avant-garde writer for works such as The Exagggerations of Peter Prince (1968), and Saw (1972).

Reviews

[Seventies Ghettocat · Rating 5 out of 5]

The recollection of the encounter between Tennessee Williams and William Burroughs alone is worth the price of this book. If you are a fan of Steve Katz, and or literary apocrypha, I highly recommend Time's Wallet. If you're a writer, you'll benefit from of all kinds of sage advice to prevent you from becoming an IT nerd, or worse, a critic.

[LibraryLady · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Memmorids"-lots of name dropping. Mix of the "high brow" with the raw.