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Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 4:
\nJosh Alan Friedman – Crackers and Bagels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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“Among the many things that writing does, it gives you the chance for revenge, clarification; there are a lot of basic human emotions that you can address by being able to write about them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Josh Alan Friedman<\/a>, author of Black Cracker<\/a>\"\", is the third Friedman brother I\u2019ve interviewed, as part of my \u201cCapturing the (Other) Friedmans\u201d series of podcasts. (I really gotta rename that.) Josh is an accomplished author and guitarist, and has plenty of stories of New York at its most sordid. We met up at a cafe in Times Square to talk about his old days writing for Al Goldstein\u2019s Screw<\/em> magazine, why it took him more than 30 years to write Black Cracker<\/em>, his \u201cLewis & Martin\u201d theory about his estrangement from his brother Drew, his parents\u2019 successful divorce, and more!<\/p>\n

“I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Along the way, we also develop an idea for a high-concept movie, talk lewdly in front of some tourists, pay homage to his literary idols, and figure out that therapy just gets in the way of making good art. If you\u2019ve got a problem with any of that (especially the coarse language) then you should skip this episode.<\/p>\n

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Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n