Memphis Blues again....

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

I wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone else read Steve Stern's stories about a Jewish community in
> > Memphis from the 20s through modern times?  These are entertaining and
> > magical stories that also seem to capture their times.  Well worth a read. 

to which Ted S. replied: 
> Anything about Fiddlin' Abe Fortas & the Crump Machine???
> 
> See: GOIN' BACK TO MEMPHIS by Jim Dickenson (lots of good Memphian
> historicity.....)

I've read only two of Stern's books, a novel _Abe Kaplan's Adventures
Underground_ I think it was called and a collection of three novellas _A
Plague of Dreamers_.  Both were much more about "the Pinch," a Jewish
neighborhood in Memphis (real or fictional? I don't know) than about
Memphis in general.  Both were great fun. 

I'll have to look for Dickenson.  This benighted university library
doesn't seem to have it.

	Steve Maas