Theodore Solotaroff (1928–2008)
Author of The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction
About the Author
Editor and writer Ted Solotaroff was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on October 9, 1928. He served in the United States Navy before receiving a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan. He was almost done with a dissertation on Henry James at the University of Chicago when he was show more hired as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement in 1960. He also worked for The New York Herald Tribune, the New American Library, and Harper & Row. In 1967, he founded The New American Review. He also wrote memoirs and collections of essays including Truth Comes in Blows, First Loves, The Red Hot Vacuum, and A Few Good Voices in My Head. He died due to complications of pneumonia on August 8, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Theodore Solotaroff
A Few Good Voices in My Head: Occasional Pieces on Writing, Editing, and Reading My Contemporaries (1987) 21 copies, 1 review
AR; American review. — Editor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Solotaroff, Theodore
Solotaroff, Ted - Birthdate
- 1928-10-09
- Date of death
- 2008-08-08
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Michigan (BA|1952)
University of Chicago - Occupations
- writer, editor, literary critic
- Organizations
- Commentary
The New American Review
Harper & Row - Relationships
- Solotaroff, Lynn (wife | divorced)
Solotaroff, Paul (son) - Short biography
- Married for the fourth time to Virginia Solatoroff.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
- Place of death
- East Quogue, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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A Few Good Voices in My Head: Occasional Pieces on Writing, Editing, and Reading My Contemporaries by Ted Solotaroff
I read these essays over many years when I was between books. I appreciate many of his literary criticisms, as they alerted me to some varied readings including The French Lieutenant's Woman. However, many of these writings are very dated and not as open to diversity and inclusion as I would have liked.
1973. This anthology has an awfully good piece by Harold Brodkey, here titled "Innocence" which it says is to be part of a forthcoming novel. It's basically all a monologue in a man's head as he is having sex with his girlfriend and trying to give her her first orgasm. They're Harvard students at the time and the man is awfully arrogant about what he thinks the woman needs or wants, but I thought it was probably a fairly good shot at what might actually go through some men's heads during show more sex.
The other great piece in this collection is Ralph Ellison's "Cadillac Flambe" also from a forthcoming (in 1973) novel. It concerns one man's trenchant, if futile response to a Senator's racist remarks. show less
The other great piece in this collection is Ralph Ellison's "Cadillac Flambe" also from a forthcoming (in 1973) novel. It concerns one man's trenchant, if futile response to a Senator's racist remarks. show less
While most of the pieces in this collection appeared more than fifty years ago they hold up, in both style and relevance, remarkably well.
paperback-sized periodical, fair condition
I used to have more, for some reason held on to these two
I used to have more, for some reason held on to these two
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