Screen

Of course Barry Malzberg wrote a metafiction about his own masturbation habits, and of course it's actually a decent book. This dude is like the most singular writer in American history. haha......more

Barry Malzberg's debut (I think) mainstream novel fits squarely in the tradition of 1960s American artistic fiction critiquing American cultural values. In this case, the value is the American obsession with movies, and especially with sexualized actresses. Malzberg portrays this obsession as self-d......more

Malzberg's "first" novel (he wrote erotica/porn novels under various pseudonyms before publishing this under his own name) reflects its author's previous "literary" concerns: explicit sexual content interspersed with musings on other matters. The sex is tedious, repetitive and annoyingly androcentri......more

Full review: [URL not allowed] "Barry N. Malzberg’s use of the language of erotic literature to craft nihilistic black comedies matured in his later SF works. Screen, written for the controversial publisher of avant-garde literary fiction and erotica Olympia Press (first print......more

A journey into a man’s head as he goes to the movies and has sex with the female leads.......more