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Donald Friedman

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Sometime trial attorney and perennial procrastinator, presently novelist, short story writer, and essayist, I’m the author of the multiply translated The Writer’s Brush, Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers, which The New York Times Sunday Book Review described as “sparkling audaciously on every page,” and which the American Libraries Association called “a grand feat of research and interpretation.” My first novel, The Hand Before the Eye, black comic and shot through with religious themes—praised by Publishers Weekly for “its impassioned finale of spiritual redemption,” was a Vanity Fair Hot Type Recommendation. You’re My Dawg, Dog: A Lexicon of Dog Terms for People, has brought pleasure equally to dog and word lovers.

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Corrupted Humours, A Novel

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The Writer's Brush: Paintin...

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DRAWING TRUTH TO POWER: MY LATEST INTERFACES ESSAY

In the current copy  of the now Open Edition INTERFACES, I write about the brilliant, popular originator of what Der Spiegel magazine dubbed “art-journalism,” Molly Crabapple, and using multiple examples, demonstrate how combining image and text enables her to convey truths with an immediacy and accessibility that neither can do alone.

You will learn how the synergy of Crabapple’s duple

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“The hard part about changing is that you have to change.”
Donald Friedman, The Hand Before the Eye

“Your dog is the ultimate acolyte; he believes you are the very image of God.”
Donald Friedman, You're My Dawg, Dog: A Lexicon of Dog Terms for People

“For true repentance there must be change. Remember when it comes-the flash, the insight- that it’s only the beginning.”
Donald Friedman, The Hand Before the Eye

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