Brodie book (continued)

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   Jessie Sheidlower said that he planned to profile my work for THE NEW YORKER.  I did "the Big Apple" 12 years ago--it's a long time in coming, if it does come.  Obviously, that would help me to get an agent, and I'd finally quit parking tickets.
   In 1993--ten years ago--Oxford University Press published Irving Lewis Allen's CITY IN SLANG.  In 1995, the paperback edition came out, and Allen added a line addition of my name to his "Big Apple" entry.  It was my first book mention anywhere.  (I'm now mentioned in dozens of books, and I read thousands of a books a year, but I'm not allowed to write a book.)
   I've since beaten CITY ON SLANG on just about every single term.  One of the CITY IN SLANG terms is to "do a brodie":

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   David Shulman has written for many publications; his first article for AMERICAN SPEECH was in February 1937.  Maybe none of this "counts" as writing, but here are some titles (JSTOR database page):


Spanish Words in American English (in Miscellany)
David Shulman
American Speech, Vol. 30, No. 3. (Oct., 1955), pp. 227-231.
22.
'Twi-Night'; 'Twi-Nighter' (in Miscellany)
Mamie J. Meredith
American Speech, Vol. 31, No. 2. (May, 1956), pp. 140-141.
23.
More Words from Mexico
John T. Krumpelmann
American Speech, Vol. 32, No. 3. (Oct., 1957), pp. 176-179.
24.
Culinary Americanisms
David Shulman
American Speech, Vol. 34, No. 1. (Feb., 1959), pp. 26-32.
25.
Front Matter
American Speech, Vol. 34, No. 1. (Feb., 1959).
26.
More on Bullpen (in Miscellany)
Peter Tamony
American Speech, Vol. 60, No. 2. (Summer, 1985), pp. 181-182.
27.
Borax Reconsidered (in Miscellany)
David Shulman
American Speech, Vol. 60, No. 3. (Autumn, 1985), pp. 283-285.
28.
Germanisms in Pennsylvania English: An Update
Kenneth Shields, Jr.
American Speech, Vol. 60, No. 3. (Autumn, 1985), pp. 228-237.
29.
Transformations of Verb Phrase Idioms: Passivization, Particle Movement, Dative Shift
Peter A. Machonis
American Speech, Vol. 60, No. 4. (Winter, 1985), pp. 291-308.
30.
More on the Words of Scrabble (in Response)
David Shulman; Joseph Leonard
American Speech, Vol. 61, No. 4. (Winter, 1986), pp. 338-339.

   His 1959 "Culinary Americanisms" cannot withstand my database searching, but still, he wrote it before I was born.
   My plan is to have Shulman go ahead and write the book that he wants to write.  If Oxford University Press doesn't want to know from him (and my "bungee jumping at the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club" appendix), and if I haven't made THE NEW YORKER and don't have an agent, I have a last resort plan.  I'll take out an ad in the NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW and ask if anyone wants to publish a NYC-themed book by a 90-year-old scholar who was featured in the NY TIMES.

Barry Popik