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insightful! will watch other vids also

I love this book. It is a treasure.

Ralph is absolutely spot on: there is an impetus that drives an artist to create. This must be fulfilled for their lives to be complete.

Frederic-I loved when you said you spend every day painting and writing, or writing and painting. Such an important distinction! Xo D.

“I find Paris a inside me” 💙💙💙👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

❤❤❤ nice Fred !!!!!

The more I hear him, the more I want to! Humility, clarity of thinking and tremendous compassion are the most charming aspects of the man, the artist!

Genio !!

🤩 wow love this !

Saw Ed McBain paperbacks on department store shelves in the 1960's-70's. Crime novels. Was into fantasy and sci fi at the time, so I turned up my nose. Only 50 years or so later do I realize my regrettable oversight. Did read Tomorrow's World aka Tomorrow And Tomorrow. Sci fi. Seemed pedestrian. I realize now that was a bad case of hoity toity. My writing consists of online comments.

WHO WROTE the MUSIC in this video PLEASE I LOVE IT.

Who wrote the PIANO MUSIC in this..sounds like an Erik Satie piece . I'd love to know

Excellent interview and wisdom from Ralph! When and where was this recorded?

Fascinating! Well done.

Right about dancing and art. MS is headed by that monster Bill Gates of Hell

Kurt reminds me of Frank Zappa

His novel Streets of Gold is the best novel ever written. Never won the Pulitzer or National Book Award. Shameful.

I love the Hunter novels and just finished a McBain this evening. So cool that he was at Art Students League for a bit. I’ve been a art model there for the past 4 years. Going there tomorrow morning. Thanks for this.

Happy 100th birthday, Mr. Vonnegut!

The greatest writer I've ever read. And a damn good doodler too.

A complex translation of one mind's contents to another. Very exciting.

This is just amazing! The works, as well as the way you describe the thinking-process involved. You have an amazing brain!

This is wonderful!

I thought that gallery looked familiar. I live in Northampton. I'm sorry that I didn't get to meet Kurt Vonnegut. I always loved his humor and sensibilities. His daughter lives here and we'd occasionally say "hi" in passing. She's also a humble, talented artist.

Thanks! I'm a big Hunter fan. just finished Strangers When We Meet. I loved it so much. I work, for the last three years, as an art model at The Art Students League

Where's my poem

Thank you so much

I only knew Jules Feiffer from my favorite childhood book, 'Phantom Tollbooth'. I recently found the 'Kill My Mother' trilogy, and now I am fascinated with this guy. Thanks for posting this!

I have a feeling that your RUclips will be successful. So, I think the best thing to do at that time is to focus on what you want to do now. I sincerely support and praise your channel, which is working hard for your dream, so that it can develop into a mega-sized channel. Thank you for the universe-like algorithm that made it possible to see good videos. It would be difficult to know all the hard work of video production without seeing it for yourself. If your video looks comfortable and friendly, it's not because it's easy and comfortable, it's because your video is very well made. It's so cool it's amazing. I habitually and inadvertently pass through the videos released by the algorithm, but I accidentally came across your beautiful video and enjoyed it. After watching your video, I realized that miracles were not made by luck, but by your hard work. Don't think you're lucky when a miracle happens on your channel, think it's all thanks to your hard work. If someone enjoys your video, I think it will be a source of strength and comfort. May your talents continue for many years to come.

OMG - wonderful! Thank you!

5:23 I found Newt's answer. There's the damn cat.

Thank you for this

could someone write some poems here that f. reads? I can't find them anywhere

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I have just watched an insightful archived interview: *The Writer in America Ross MacDonald*. RUclips. Downloaded by Mark Slade. I could wish the film longer: MacDonald (Kenneth Millar 1915-1983) was said to be a gifted writing teacher, in as much as writing can be taught. Dorothea Brande and John Gardner were the go-to writing teachers. He was married to novelist Margaret Millar (1915-1994) who appeared briefly in the film. Penguin Crime in Britain published her novel The Soft Talkers (also titled as An Air That Kills) which I liked very much. My local bookshop has a good crime section: When lockdown ceases I must hunt down unread MacDonalds. And I have a notion to reread Cornell Woolrich aka William Irish and William Saroyan, an old favourite.

Correction. I wrote James Wright when I meant to write Richard Wright, author of Native Son. In one of his essays James Baldwin described Wright's many difficulties, not least the FBI's surveillance of him, when Wright was living in Paris. James Wright the American poet (1927-1980) would be worth seeing in an interview. The list of American poets I would like to see in conversation with an accomplished reader of poetry (I am trying to avoid the word critic) would be a long list. Again I would like to see these archived permanently on RUclips. What you are doing is most worthwhile, Mr Friedman. I live in Scotland and have been reading American poetry, fiction and good non-fiction writing (the kind that appears in The Atlantic and The New Yorker) for 60 years.

You gave us an entertaining Evan Hunter/Ed McBain interview. So thanks for this film on Susan Minot who, like Evan Hunter, has a background in representational drawing. I have two hardback books by Susan: Monkeys and Evening. Now I must order her book of stories, Why I Don't Write. Incidental to this video, I think you would enjoy the series of RUclips films on painters, sculptors, and installation artists, appearing under Tate Shots. I would enjoy watching any interviews you can track down with James Wright, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, John O'Hara, James Gould Cozzens, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, J.F. Powers, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Irwin Shaw, Carson McCullers, Nelson Algren, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Flannery O'Connor, Bernard Malamud, James Purdy, Chester Himes, Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, John Updike, Vance Bourjaily, Willie Morris, Mary McCarthy, JP Donleavy, Randall Jarrell, Christina Stead, Ross McDonald, George E Higgins, Jim Thompson, Anne Tyler, Janet Malcolm, Octavia E Butler, Louise Gluck, Allegra Goodman, Julie Hecht, Amy Hempel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tracy K Smith, Amanda Gorman etc. RUclips has great potential for writers as well as painters, sculptors, composers etc. But I do not think writers and publishers are using it to its full potential. Publishers do not seem to wake up to the tremendous potential of the medium. The BBC in London could do much more to make televised interviews with writers available on RUclips: There are some, but not nearly enough, which is why I am grateful to you. For instance, are there any interviews with William March who wrote a brilliant novel about the First World War, Company K (recently republished)? Are there any archival interviews with James Wright, author of Native Son? We can watch an intelligent interview with Paul Goodman by William F Buckley. Has anyone interviewed on film science fiction writers like Poul Anderson, Philip Jose Farmer, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Philip K Dick, Samuel R Delany, Robert A Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, William Gibson etc. I see I have thrown a lot of names here, but any recovery of archival interviews is a reason for celebration. These interviews with gifted men and women are a life-affirming diversion during Covid-19 lockdown. Thanks.

Thanks for this. I've been a fan, particularly of the 87th precinct series, for years. The top shelf of my book case has perhaps 30 crumbling paperback McBain books, most of which I have read at least twice, some more. I have a similar collection of Elmore Leonard books, but I think I enjoy McBain the most.

He should have thrown away all these "paintings" and "drawings". A child could do better with a box of crayons. If he weren't a famous writer, he wouldn't be allowed to go within a hundred yards of an art gallery. This is just bad, bad, childish crap. Not that his writing was a lot better. He's on the list of most admired writers with the fewest readers in history. Every pretentious person and wannabe literary writer buys his books, but no one actually finishes them. Or so thos who buys his books confess.

And his paintings are very beautiful!

Thank you for this, Mr Friedman. A great big thanks. There is so little about Evan Hunter on RUclips (apart from a delightful interview on his work with Hitchcock on The Birds). This video delighted me because I remember reading Paper Dragon just as I recall reading Streets of Gold, Strangers When We Met, Buddwing, Sons, Dad, Every Little Crook and Nanny, Fathers and Daughters, Last Summer, and many others. We laughed at the wit of his 87th Precinct novels, and the Matthew Hope series, at conversations his cops had about an Antonioni movie (was it Blow-Up?) or the audacity of the Deaf Man. Henry Miller and Mailer write about sex, but did anyone write so well about falling in love as Evan Hunter? Irwin Shaw and Malamud did, but not so many others; and then there was Hunter's ear, as good as O'Hara's or Nelson Algren's. Do you know P.G. Wodehouse was an Evan Hunter fan? One of his sons was a superb harmonica player: Streets of Gold, the story of a blind jazz pianist, with shades of George Shearing, will always be read and admired.

Vonnegut is my favorite writer of all time! His art is cool as well! He's a legend! LOVE THIS!!

What a singular human he was. Such a talent, and so humble despite it.

Cool series. I have been impressed that Terence Malick is like a frustrated poet, and David Lynch a would be painter at one time. Trying to make challenging points in a different medium.

What a SPECTACULAR show! I want everything.......❤️ (Sorry if this is repeated...it seemed to have disappeared)

What a SPECTACULAR show! I want everything......❤️

Would like to see a picture of that intersection too.

Favorite line: "That's what I hate about Microsoft, they don't realize that we're dancing animals." Thanks for sharing, Donald.

great timing on release. food for thought. especially liked the office background (and the cat interruption)