SLPAD - unnumbered query on writers

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks for the great refutation!

Bruce Jay Friedman - had to look him up. Screenplays for “Splash” and “Stir
Crazy”

The most captivating part of the Wikipedia article about him was this:

Friedman once got into a quarrel with fellow writer Norman Mailer at the
latter's house party. It turned physical when Mailer head butted him and
Mailer's wife egged him on to "kill the bastard". Although Friedman
eventually prevailed in the fistfight, he had to receive a tetanus shot
after Mailer bit him in the neck.


But you did make me want to read that Black Humor Anthology.





On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 5:39 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is true that Philip Roth and such as John Updike and Bill Styron and
> younger ones like Robert Stone and many others were still writing
> in the basic social realism vein. Philip Roth in his first
> Postmodernism-lite novel My Life as a Man---published in the seventies, but
> started
> in the sixties wrote what TRP did her---that it was happenin' all over;
> Roth had already done the Kafka-like The Breast and the Swiftian Our Gang.
>
> First catch was Catch--22, appearing for years in the late fifties in lit
> mag excerpts...working title then was Catch 18...
>
> But John Barth had published The Sot Weed Factor in 1960 and was working
> in central Pa [Penn State] on
> Giles Goat Boy in the earliest sixties. Robert Coover had arrived. Bruce
> Jay Freidman, now not read so much it seems, was
> in the one and only Black Humor anthology which also included TRP....
>
> John Gardner was to do Grendel and The Sunlight Dialogues in the sixties.
>
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