What has happened to America, and what's become of the American dream?Behind the self-confident image of world's most influential country, we now see a nation tearing itself apart. The United States may be arguably the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering and division, a condition only exacerbated by the election of President Donald Trump.In this searing account, expatriate journalist Alan Friedman returns after thir...

Where is Jimmy Dutton, Jr.? The infant child was snatched from a shopping cart while in his father's care and hasn't been seen since. Now Jim Dutton is on a journey to find his son. It's a journey that will teach him what it means to be a father and a son and why they need each other. "Superb. A beautiful, heartwarming tale." – Jennie Louwes, 5-star, Reedsy Discovery review of Second Chances "A great novel." – Reitumetse Mokoena, Reedsy Discovery review

“Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pimps, the runaways who will likely be the next decade's prostitutes, the clergymen who fight the smut merchants and the cops who feel impotent in the face of the judiciary.”—Publishers WeeklyThis classic account of the ultra-sleazy, pre-Disneyfied era of Times Square is now the...

"Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read ... a must for any fan of good music writing and great storytelling." --William Michael Smith, Houston Press "He dances off the page, improvises, hits all the grace notes. He knows the turfspeak of both showbiz and quality li...

South School, 1962: The last segregated school in New York. Their teacher moonlights on "Lawrence Welk," the lady principal wears boxing gloves, and the student body is all-Negro . . . except for first grader Josh Friedman. He's white, but he's working on it. The acclaimed author of TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE returns with a one-of-a-kind autobiographical novel - "a memoir you can't accuse of lies." Center stage in the unflinching and frequently hilarious funh...

An American couple drives from Paris to Rome in a hearse. A baker in Paris chases a tourist with a breadknife. A shoe wanders from hotel to hotel. And a landlady shows her lodger with pride how she torments her pets. In the Sistine Chapel in Rome, a wife discovers to her horror that her blind husband can actually see Michelangelo’s frescoes.

This third edition apprises users of the MMPI-2/MMPI-2-Restructured Form (RF) for the ever-changing landscape of this dynamic personality/psychopathology instrument and its expanding utility in a variety of contexts. Two new chapters addressing the RC scales and the MMPI-2-RF are included in this updated text. Additionally, over 450 new references have been incorporated into the book, with information gathered and organized for practical clinical and forensic applications. The codetype int...

Hanna, 18, wants to take care of Harold, but Harold, 44, wants her mother to take her home, but Hanna stays with him, but she joins the Army to escape from him, but they eat pizza and get married, but twelve years of trying pass before Hanna gets pregnant, but Harold worries hell die during surgery for prostate cancer, but happily, he lives, but Hanna is not happy taking care of their baby alone while Harold writes poetry in the attic, but Harold takes care of his mother, 89, who has Alzheime...

Androgyny is destiny. "Miss, you're also a boy!" a gynecologist harrumphs in Hermaphrodeity, a grand comedy of gender surprises. Boy or girl--choose one. Millie or Willie. This legendary autobiography of M. W. Niemann earned nomination for the National Book Award. It's a comic epic of sex, a subversive saga of love. The mythic author's double-trouble organs--female and male both--inspire a battle, inch by inch, from sensitive girlhood to tough punk in a boys gang, from geeky Harva...

The Cannibal painter, famous for chewing her canvases and leaving lovebites in the paint, recalls the comic years before dementia. When little Coco accidentally sliced the tip of her baby brothers pinky, she tasted it. When she saw Michelangelos DAVID naked on a calendar, she ate him. When she attended art school, she discovered her talent for eating boyfriends. When she went to Italy to see the original DAVID, she may have knifed and eaten small parts of a young sculptor. When she hid in Par...

Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours takes its primary inspiration from the contemporary U.S. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) crisis in soldiers transitioning from battlefields back into society. It begins by examining how ancient societies sought to ease the return of soldiers in order to minimize PTSD, though the term did not become widely used until the early 1980s. It then considers a dozen or so Shakespearean plays that depict such transitions at the start, focus...

Isabel Archer, an insurance investigator in San Francisco, investigates her mothers death at Lockleigh Castle. Isabel suspects murder. Her mother offered to sell one kidney to Isabels anglophile uncle, a shady billionaire dying of kidney disease. Her uncle purchased Lockleigh Castle from Lord Warburton. Isabel meets the castles snarky residents. Each one seems capable of murder. She questions genial Lord Warburton. He finds the American girl cheeky, but attractive. Isabel finds herself wonder...