Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 7:00pm

"[Greenberg] creates poignant subtexts involving fundamental human values and emotions like love, desire, honesty and malice…skillfully explores issues that range from the profoundly tragic to the delightfully funny."

Kirkus Reviews

"[A] terrific new collection…. It is as though Bellow or Alfred Kazin were transported to post-millennial New York, bringing their toughness and romanticism to bear on our softer and more familiar world…. This book, with its intrepidity, humor, and dark insight, offers its own, irrefutable justification for the 'writer's life."

Adam Kirsch, Tablet


A native New Yorker, Michael Greenberg is the author of the memoir Hurry Down Sunshine, published in sixteen countries and chosen as one of the best books of 2008 by Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon.com, and Library Journal. He is a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement. His writing has appeared in such varied places as O, The Oprah Magazine and The New York Review of Books.

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Porter Square Books
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Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413

By Michael Greenberg
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781590513415
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Other Press, 09/01/2009