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Josh Alan Friedman

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in The United States

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http://www.BlackCracker.fm

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Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction

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Josh Alan Friedman’s 2026 novel, All Roads Lead To Great Neck, is a bildungsroman set in 1970 Great Neck, following a teenager whose drug experiments summon visions of a 19th century Jewish pimp. Mystical Judaism meets drug culture in ’70’s suburbia.

For those prone to disbelief, Josh Alan Friedman’s landmark book, Tales of Times Square , serves as last will and testament of what once was. Still in print since its 1986 hardcover release by Delacorte Press, Tales became its own podcast in 2017. The demimonde of old Broadway bend your ear from the burlesque theaters, boxing rings and gutters of a fading 42nd Street. All 17 episodes—as well as 17 episodes of Tales of. . . My Dead Heroes appear at Josh’s legacy site, BlackCracker.fm

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Rick Derringer, one of my personal top five guitarists, passed away at 77. The greatest one-two-punch guitar duo I ever saw was Rick with Johnny Winter at the Fillmore East in 1970. In 1988, I wrote a cover story for American Way, the American Airlines in-flight magazine, called “Stars

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Average rating: 3.98 · 995 ratings · 124 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tales of Times Square 3.82 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Times Square: Expanded Edition 3.97 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental by Josh Alan Friedman (Goodreads Author), Drew Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'N' Roll 3.87 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Cracker by Josh Alan Friedman (Goodreads Author), Wyatt Doyle (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.46 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Sex Was Dirty 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell the Truth Until They Bleed by Josh Alan Friedman (Goodreads Author), Wyatt Doyle (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Roads Lead to Great Neck by Josh Alan Friedman (Goodreads Author), Wyatt Doyle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bruce Carleton (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell the Truth Until They Bleed 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'n' Roll by Josh Alan Friedman(2008-03-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Josh Friedman and 1 other person liked Wulf Fleischbinder's review of All Roads Lead to Great Neck: "I’ve known Josh Alan Friedman for years, and I’ve always admired his fearless, razor-sharp voice—whether he’s chronicling the wild underbelly of Times Square or diving into the raw truths of music and culture. But with All Roads Lead to Great Neck, h" Read more of this review »
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“The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.”
― Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square

tags: holidays, new-york-city, times-square

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“It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.”
― Josh Alan Friedman, Black Cracker

tags: american, holidays, melting-pot, race

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“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.”
― Josh Alan Friedman