Tales of Times Square: The Tapes

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Tales of… is a podcast built from a writer’s own tapes. Josh Alan Friedman spent the late 1970s and ’80s covering pre-Disney Times Square for the men’s magazines of the era – the only reporter in a city of 50,000 writers working that beat. He recorded his interviews on cheap cassettes and kept them for… | Your host for Tales of... Josh Alan Friedman Writer-guitarist Josh Alan Friedman was born in New York City in 1956. By 1987, he’d had enough and followed his wife to Texas, a year after Tales of Times Square —the subject of Season 1's podcast—was published. Josh's 2026 novel, All Roads Lead to Great Neck , is based on a doomed adolescent hippie Josh knew as a teenager. When he trips, he sees visions of a 19th century Jewish pimp. The autobiographical novel, Black Cracker , tells the saga of his childhood being the only white boy at Long Island's last segregated school. Before that: Tell the Truth Until They Bleed , a wrenching collection of music profiles. When Sex Was Dirty , a follo

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