Stomping the Goyim

by Michael Disend

This brilliant fiction, originally published in 1969, is a hilarious work about being gay, Jewish, and part of the drugged-out, psychodelic scene of the late 1960s. A spaced-out kid from Newark faces his draft board and illuminates his entire generation. William Burroughs wrote of this book upon its "This is a brilliant novel which also has the virtue of being highly readalbe from beginning to end." Critic and author Seymour Krim called it "...an important book...I would say Stoping the Goyim is the most significant book of the historically unique Lower East Side." Michael Disend , a film-writer and actor, lives in San Francisco.

142 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

Reviews

[Kenning JP Garcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Certainly problematic in many respects but there aren't many books written like this or perhaps not previous to this. A truly postmodern narrative or anti-narrative in the budding moments of postmodernism. Fragmented and lyrical. Philosophical and chaotic. Rough, raw, urban and not respectable at all. All the things I want in a novel.

[Daniel Krolik · Rating 3 out of 5]

An incoherent but intriguing little time capsule. On the rare occasion it made sense, it was actually pretty captivating.

[Vampire Who Baked · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is VERY difficult to read. Funny and surreal and so many other things, but the prose is too opaque most of the time.

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

60's Jewish hipster psychedelia. Imagine a drugged out, scuzzy NY Beat writing with Yiddish syntax. I initially found the book annoying, but after 1/4 through the book (and it's a short one) it sucked me in.

[Kate Savage · Rating 3 out of 5]

"TIME TIME TIME TIME IS A CLOT IN THE THROAT OF ETERNITY"

This book is itself a Trip. A romp through 1960s draft-dodging drugged-out queer anarkey in Amur'ka. It is also only BARELY readable.