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.

🤩 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.

Thank you for this, Mr Friedman. A great big thanks. There is so little about Evan Hunter on KZfaq (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.

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

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.

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