Morris Lurie's Copy of Don't Talk to Strange Bears by Edward Koren

Moses "Morris" Lurie (30 October 1938 – 8 October 2014) was an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.

—Wikipedia

An Australian bookseller is selling author Morris Lurie's copy of Don't Talk to Strange Bears (1969), Edward Koren's first book. It has a full page dedicatory drawing of a mustachioed figure in top hat and tails—let's call him Uncle Sam—who appears to be indicating the eastern seaboard on a map of the United States.

Edward Koren
AbeBooks listing accessed June 8, 2022

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8124981888&searchurl=kn%3Dedward%2BKoren%26sortby%3D1&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title22

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Don't Talk to Strange Bears: The Funny/Serious World of Ed Koren

The Brown Alumni Monthly published a cover story on Edward Koren in April of 1969. The artist, then 33, worked as an art instructor at Brown, a contributor to the New Yorker and other publications, a printmaker, and a children's book author. This is a xerox copy of the article. The author is uncredited.

"Next I want to sing a song about the House Rules Committee and how the legislative
functions of Congress are tyrannized over by its procedural calendar, dominated in turn
by an all-powerful chairman hamstringing the processes of democracy." 

"Don't Talk to Strange Bears:  The Funny/Serious World of Ed Koren," Brown Alumni Monthly, April 1969, Vol. 69, No. 7

Note:  Edward Koren is one of most distinctive comic artists around. Naturally, he appears on this blog.

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