The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Bruce Jay Friedman
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Fathers, Human behavior, Holidays, Comedy, Satire
When Bruce Jay Friedman edited a paperback collection of plays, stories, and excerpts from novels in 1965 under the title Black Humor, he became America’s best-known spokesman for a brand of fiction characterized by a quirky kind of comic satire with a sardonic slant. Although in his introduction to that milestone collection (which included the work of John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabokov, Edward Albee, and others) Friedman said that he would have about as much luck defining black humor as he would defining an elbow or a corned beef sandwich, he described...
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