The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Herbert Gold
Vital
- Full name
- Herbert Gold
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1946 (Columbia College)
Works (30)
- 1951 Birth of a Hero · Viking Press
- 1955 The Prospect Before Us (Room Clerk) · World Publishing
- 1956 The Man Who Was Not With It · Little, Brown
- 1959 The Optimist · Little, Brown
- 1960 Love and Like · Dial Press
- 1960 Therefore Be Bold · Dial Press
- 1962 The Age of Happy Problems · Dial Press
- 1963 Salt · Dial Press
- 1966 Fathers: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir · Random House
- 1969 The Great American Jackpot · Random House
- 1971 The Magic Will: Stories & Essays · Random House
- 1972 My Last Two Thousand Years · Random House
- 1973 The Young Prince and the Magic Cone · Doubleday
- 1974 Swiftie the Magician · McGraw-Hill
- 1977 Waiting for Cordelia · Arbor House
- 1979 Slave Trade · Arbor House
- 1980 He/She · Arbor House
- 1981 Family: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir · Arbor House
- 1981 A Walk on the West Side: California on the Brink · Arbor House
- 1982 True Love · Arbor House
- 1984 Mister White Eyes · Arbor House
- 1985 Stories of Misbegotten Love · Capra Press
- 1986 A Girl of Forty · Donald I. Fine
- 1986 Lovers & Cohorts: Twenty-Seven Stories · Donald I. Fine
- 1991 Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti · Prentice Hall
- 1994 Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool · Simon &
- 2008 Still Alive!: A Temporary Condition · Arcade Publishing
- 2014 She Took My Arm As If She Loved Me · St. Martin's Press
- 2015 When a Psychopath Falls in Love · Jorvik Press
- 2024 Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems · Rare Bird Books
Primary sources
Columbia College Today & other articles
Columbia College Today — vol. 41 (~2001), Class of 1948 alumni class notes — reminiscence by Ted Melnechuk '48 about Sylvain Bromberger
Sylvain Bromberger, back in our student days at Columbia, was one of the literary bunch who revived the Philolexian Society and edited or wrote for the Columbia Review; others included Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Gold '46, Daniel G. Hoffman '47, John Hollander '50, Norman Kelvin, Louis Simpson '49GS, and me.
One of the mid/late-1940s revivers of the Philolexian Society.
External references
Community-maintained record
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