Between The Flags - Reviews

"Between the Flags, his new volume of uncollected stories, is so energized, it may make you suffer a little. It will also make you laugh, make you think, and encourage you to re-experience its on-target metaphorical tales. As with the artists Friedman has always presented so thoughtfully, he's got his fictional characters just right. You'll find yourself saying, 'Yes, yes!' These people are alive. And if you're a writer, you may also find yourself saying, 'God, I wish I had written that!' "

- Budd Schulberg

"These uncollected stories distill what Friedman fans have known all along: the man is way ahead of his time and the work as a whole is larger than its parts. Newcomers will discover that just as his novel Yarborough foretold the advance of the sixties drug culture, so did 'Whisper' (later Whispers) anticipate years before 'the avant-garde went into business' - the Reagan eighties and beyond."

- David Michaelis

"These wonderful stories are moving gifts from a writer who consistently and patiently delineates the world as it is. They should be read by everyone who loves fine writing."

- Tom Huey

"Whether the narrator is male or female - or young, middle-aged or moving toward a later stage- B.H. Friedman's stories carry conviction. Some are traditional, some innovative; some come from the heart, others from the head. The hidden narrator, the author himself, gives us dimensions of the human psyche granted by time but rarely captured these days in works of fiction."

- James McConkey