What’s with Baum? - Woody Allen

Category: Contemporary, Humor, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Manhattan New York Publishing Woody Allen

Written by Woody Allen
Read by Woody Allen
Format: MP3

What’s with Baum: Is Woody Allen’s first novel and it is everything you would expect of him. A portrait of an intellectual crippled by neurotic concerns about the futility and emptiness of life… and that’s just for starters

Story Blurb:

A middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baum’s turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropped him. His third marriage is on the rocks and he suspects his handsome and successful younger brother may have seduced his Harvard-educated wife. He is uneasy with her close relationship with her son, a more successful author than he, and suspicious of her closeness with their neighbor in Connecticut. And in a moment of irrationality, he has impulsively tried to kiss a pretty young journalist during an interview that she is about to go public with.

Published: September 2025
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