UB's Howard Wolf Publishes 10th Book, "Broadway Serenade"

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new novel by Amherst resident Howard Wolf, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, will be published next month by the Academic Foundation of Delhi, India.

The book, "Broadway Serenade," is Wolf's 10th and the sixth published by the Academic Foundation.

Traditional in form, its pun-filled narrative describes the conflicts and erotic adventures of a Jewish-American lustmensch/schlemiel and connoisseur of body parts named Larry Mann, a gentleman torn between family loyalty, his literary conceits and the hot and lively pursuit of his sexual fancies.

The setting is a New York City that is no more -- Bohemian, romantic, relatively safe, vibrantly political -- although the protagonist is drawn repeatedly to the immigrant past of his tailor-grandfather and the mysteries his life represents.

Wolf is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir "Forgive the Father: A Memoir of Changing Generations," about his life as a liberal college professor and father caught up in the great cultural upheaval of the 1960s.

His other books include "Upper Manhattan: A Family Album," a book of poetry heralded for its sensitive appraisal of self and family. Wolf also wrote "The Voice Within: Reading and Writing Autobiography" (with Roger Porter), "This is India," "The Autobiographical Impulse in America" and "A Version of Home: Letters From the World."

Works in progress include a book of travel essays and letters from Hong Kong. Wolf has published more than 175 literary and cultural essays, short stories, poems and social commentaries. He is a member of the PEN American Center and has been a fellow of both the Macdowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Arts.

He has traveled widely and has taught and lectured in Turkey as a Fulbright fellow and in Malaysia, India, Greece and Hong Kong. Wolf is a graduate of Amherst College and holds a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.