About a million years ago SUNY Buffalo flew me up to the campus to entice me into its English PhD program, and they arranged for me to meet Prof. Mark Shechner, then already a noted critic who went on to become a star on the Jewish American lit scene that was also my beat.
I didn’t go to Buffalo. A decision that has given me endless opportunities for Krimiam regrets.
Then some weeks ago Shechner contacted me. He knew Krim and was working on a review of Missing a Beat. That review is now up at Tablet Magazine, and it is a terrific remembrance of Krim.
What’s it all mean, Mr. Natural? It means that our ability to take advantage of America’s much vaunted unlimited opportunities is in fact quite limited by our characters, which direct us in certain paths to the exclusion of all others. Following that limited path is the route to unlimited opportunities.
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