Kurt BrokawKurt Brokaw, The Paperback Guy, is New York City's only part-time sidewalk seller of 1940s vintage paperbacks and early 20th century pulp magazines, offering a massive personal collection built in the 1950s and 60s. He's Senior Film Critic for Th Independent film journal, and was Associate Teaching Professor at The New School for 33 years, teaching literature and advertising, as well as literature and film courses (including Killer Movies: Lost Films Noir, Femme Fatales of Film Noir, The Jewish Close-Up, and Queer Pioneers) at The 92nd Street Y for 15 years. Kurt was an original "Mad Man" copywriter and creative supervisor for three top-10 advertising agencies based in Manhattan, and creative director for RCA Records. His first book, A Night in Transylvania: The Dracula Scrapbook (Grosset & Dunlap, 1975) was a trade bestseller in hardcover and paper. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with MS and BS degrees, where he wrote the UW's first master's thesis on television commercials. He is married to Mona Yuter and the father of four grown children (Leslie, Chris, Kate, Tess), and lives in Manhattan. Read More Read Less