About the Author

Barry is the author of Jacob Fishman’s Marriages, Funny You Should Mention It, Road Comic, Four Days And Year Later, and The Joke Was on Me. An essayist, reporter, and political columnist, his work has appeared in Esquire, where he has co-hosted “The Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce” (Pierce in fact gave him the name “Friedman of the Plains”); The Progressive Populist; Inside Media; The Las Vegas Review-Journal; and AAPG EXPLORER, a magazine for petroleum geologists, which is all the more noteworthy, considering he knows little about petroleum geology and has hurt himself pumping his own gas. Further, Barry has appeared in national commercials, a few local ones, including a local pizza joint, which featured him lying on his back, facing and barking at a pizza. He does radio commentary on Public Radio and appeared in UHF with “Weird Al” Yankovic, setting the bar for all those who might someday play a character named “Thug #2.” The movie still provides him with $3.76 residual checks every time it plays at some Lithuanian drive-in.

You can find out more about Barry at barrysfriedman.substack.com or www.friedmanoftheplains.com

Barry hates referring to himself in the third person.

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