Coming of Age with Josh Alan Friedman

Friend of the blog(©), Joe Bonomo (author of some great books) has just posted a terrific interview with another FOB(©), Josh Alan Friedman (also the author of some terrific books, including his latest, Black Cracker). The last time I mentioned Josh was last month when I was talking about his fun and nostalgic tome, Tales of Times Square.

"Josh Alan Friedman’s Black Cracker, an “autobiographical novel,” is a very funny and closely observed book about growing up as an outsider — in Friedman’s case as the only white kid in an all-black school in Glen Cove, New York in the mid-1960s. Against the background of civil rights and the shifting mores of the decade Friedman dramatizes with cinematic relish not only his unique childhood but a cast of local characters (in all senses of the word) that has lived inside of him for decades." Read the whole thing over at No Such Thing As Was.