Dan Friedman

Harlem

Freelance Writer at Freelance

From Leeds he/him. Drinks whisky. Reads books. Writes culture. At times funny. @danfriedmanme on platforms Ebook https://t.co/8arAI7eeJq Comms @joindayenu

Articles

The golden age for American Jews is over

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Dan Friedman

Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, MailerBy David DenbyHenry Holt, 40o pages, $32When Lytton Strachey wrote his Eminent Victorians in 1918, the Victorian period was clearly finished. Queen Victoria herself had died in 1901 and when one looked back at her reign from beyond World War I's killing fields of Ypres and the Somme, the distinguishing features of the 19th century already felt like history. The four folks he wrote about were long dead. The era was gone.
John Scalzi Misses His Moon Shot

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

A bestselling New York Times novelist, John Scalzi specializes in taking weird conceits and putting them at the heart of SF novels: space armies staffed by the geriatric? Old Man’s War series, check; dinosaur preservation in an alt-Earth? The Kaiju Preservation Society, check; underworld business conspiracy run by cats? Starter Villain, check. But Scalzi has taken it a step further with his new novel, When The Moon Hits Your Eye.
When The Moon Hits Your Eye

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

With ‘When The Moon Hits Your Eye,’ the bestselling writer has finally become a little too cheesy
Book and Film Globe

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

With ‘When The Moon Hits Your Eye,’ the bestselling writer has finally become a little too cheesy
Book and Film Globe

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

In 2019, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone had a surprise hit with their co-written, nonlinear narrative novella This Is How You Lose the Time War. Despite its challenging style, people enjoyed the antagonism and poetry of the literary love letter across time. While professionally sabotaging the other, two agents of the warring blue and red factions drop secret notes to each other across time and alternate universes. At worst it was a five dimensional Spy vs Spy; at best a genre-defying masterpiece.
The River Has Roots

1 month ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

Poet and fantasy author Amal El-Mohtar stuns in her debut novella
Were these the funniest moments in more than 5,000 years of Jewish history?

1 month ago | stljewishlight.org | Dan Friedman

Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan, inventing Judaism and changing the world forever. Around 2,500 years ago a crypto-Jewish queen managed to save the Jewish community from a genocidal vizier, prompting the celebration of Purim — our most bacchanalian festival.
At a Dan Friedman exhibition, the bizarre joy of being Dan Friedman

2 months ago | forward.com | Dan Friedman

Reviewing a show by a namesake is a bizarre experience. It's like arriving in an alternate reality where signs everywhere remind you that you made objects you have never seen before. When I started writing for the Forward 20 years ago, people confused me with a bunch of other Dan Friedmans, including the published novelist, the reporter, a right-wing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.
Book and Film Globe

2 months ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

Thirteen years after PSY’s Gangnam Style, America is still discovering and devouring Korean culture. Parasite won an Oscar, BTS and Blackpink are selling out at stadiums, and Squid Game dominates Netflix. So it’s no surprise that a publisher would try to cash in on this Hallyu Wave by publishing the country’s recent best-selling book of the last 20 years. That’s the context for Ewhan Kim’s recent-ish novel coming out from MIRA Books this February.
Book and Film Globe

2 months ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Dan Friedman

South Korea’s bestselling sci-fi novel of the last 20 years as arrived to terrify English-language readers