Bob Lamm

An Uncommon Life: A Memoir in 50 (Short) Scenes Bob Lamm

Childhood in the 1950s; high school and summer camp; Yale and Sarah Lawrence in the 1960s; studying racism in the British police; a Route 66 summer on the road; teaching pro-feminist college classes; interviewing film stars; a political battle over a portrait; a horrific accident; a volleyball game in Central Park; teaching improv comedy; the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz; a train ride across Canada; being an imposter as a literature instructor; and much more.

BOB LAMM's work has appeared in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Ms. Magazine, Jewish Currents, and the Village Voice. He has taught at Yale, Queens College, NYU, the New School, the CUNY Graduate Center, two high schools, and two pre-schools. He lives in the same Manhattan building where his family lived when he was born.