Since the late 1950s Seymour Krim has been writing freewheeling, hardhitting, and deeply personal essays in which he explores the vicissitudes of his own life not only as a means of deriving therapy from art but also, and more important, as a way of...

NEW YORK - Seymour Krim, an author and critic who edited an anthology of writings of the Beat Generation, has died at age 67. Mr. Krim had heart disease for some time. He was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide at his...

In this collection's title essay, the author lays himself on the line: "I wanted to swallow the entire fucking world and spit it out again not merely as an artist but as some kind of literary-human-intellectual God." Krim--the freewheeling culture chronicler of the...