Benjamin Taylor reads “I’m a Fool”
From Horses and Men (1923)
“We got home late in November and I promised mother I’d quit the race horses for good. There’s a lot of things you’ve got to promise a mother because she don’t know any better.”
Benjamin Taylor is the author of two novels, Tales Out of School, winner of the Harold Ribalow Prize, and The Book of Getting Even. He edited Saul Bellow: Letters, and his travel memoir Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, was published in May 2012. Taylor is a graduate of Haverford College and Columbia University where he earned the doctorate in English and comparative literature. He is a member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty at The New School.
