Benjamin De Casseres  

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Benjamin De Casseres (April 3, 1873 – December 7, 1945) (often DeCasseres) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and poet. He was born in Philadelphia and began working at the Philadelphia Press at an early age, but spent most of his professional career in New York City, where he wrote for various newspapers including The New York Times, The Sun and The New York Herald.

Short works

• "A Conversation between George Bernard Shaw and the Dictionary," The Smart Set, December 1914
• "Variation on an Old Theme," The Smart Set, September 1917
• "The Resignation of New York," The Smart Set, October 1917
• "The Psychology of the Avenue," The Smart Set, May 1918
• '"Little Scenarios," The Smart Set, March 1920
• "Four One-Reel Movies," The Smart Set, April 1920
• "The Lost Satire of a Famous Titan," The Smart Set, June 1920
• "Queer Antics of Old Madame Ouija," People's Favorite Magazine, August 1920
• "The Caste of the Newly Educated," People's Favorite Magazine, November 1920
• "The Hamlet-Like Nature of Charlie Chaplin," The New York Times Book Review, 12 December 1920
• "Sub Specie Eternitatus," The Smart Set, June 1922
• "The Nietzschean Follies", The Smart Set, September–October 1922
• "The New Girl—I Hate Her," Metropolitan Magazine, February–March 1923
• "The Babbitts of Radicalism," Haldeman-Julius Monthly, November 1926
• "Five Portraits on Galvanized Iron," American Mercury, December 1926
• "A Woman for President!," Gay Book Magazine, January 1933

Books

• The Shadow-Eater (1915) - poetry
• Chameleon: Being a Book of My Selves (1922)
• James Gibbons Huneker (1925)
• Mirrors of New York (1925)
• Forty Immortals (1926)
• The Shadow-Eater (New edition, 1927)
• Anathema! Litanies of Negation (1928)
• The Superman in America (1929)
• Mencken and Shaw (1930)
• The Love Letters of a Living Poet (1931)
• Spinoza, Liberator of God and Man (1932)
• When Huck Finn Went Highbrow (1934)
• The Muse of Lies (1936)
• The Works of Benjamin DeCasseres (3 Volumes, Blackstone Publishers, 1939)
• The Works of Benjamin DeCasseres (3 volumes, Gordon Press, 1976)
• Anathema! Litanies of Negation (New edition, 2013)
• IMP: The Poetry of Benjamin DeCasseres (2013)
• Fantasia Impromptu & Finis (2016)
• New York is Hell: Thinking and Drinking in the Beautiful Beast (2016)

Pamphlets

• Sex in Inhibitia (?, ?)
• Clark Ashton Smith (?, 2 pages)
• I am Private Enterprise (?, ?)
• What Is a Doodle-Goof? (1926, 4 pages)
• Robinson Jeffers, Tragic Terror (1928, Privately printed by John S. Mayfield)
• The Holy Wesleyan Empire (4 pages, 1928)
• The Hit and Run Thinker (1931, seven 10″x5″ strips of paper, staple at the top)
• Prelude to DeCasseres' Magazine (?, 1932)
• From Olympus to Independence Hall (1935, 4 pages)
• The Individual against Moloch (1936, 48 pages, Blackstone Publishers)
• The Communist-Parasite State (1936, 10 pages)
• Germans, Jews and France by Nietzsche (1935, 31 pages, Rose Publishers)
• To Hell with DeCasseres! (play, 1937, 16 pages)
• Don Marquis (1938)
• Finis (1945, 20 pages)

See also

• Dada
• Friederich Nietzsche
• H. L. Mencken
• Individualist anarchism
• New York City
• Sephardi Jews