Black Is My Favorite Color | Critical Overview

"Black Is My Favorite Color'' appeared for the first time in the Reporter on July 18, 1963. Later that year, it was published in Idiots First, Malamud's second short story collection. His first collection, The Magic Barrel, won the National Book Award for fiction, and many critics continue to praise these short stories as Malamud' s best.

However, both Idiots First and ‘‘Black Is My Favorite Color’’ have received their fair share of good criticism since they were published. In fact, Sidney Richman, in his 1966 book, Bernard Malamud,...

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