Mickey Friedman is a writer and filmmaker. In previous lives, he delivered newspapers, was a file clerk, operated a switchboard, was a caretaker, worked the front desk at the last of Alice\u2019s restaurants, started food co-ops, and taught at a junior high, two colleges, and graduate school. He quit some of these jobs and was fired from others.<\/p>\n
He has made films about small town life in Monterey, Massachusetts, Edith Wharton, Nicaragua, breast cancer, GE\u2019s PCB-contaminated of Pittsfield, MA and the Housatonic River, and one young soldier\u2019s year in Iraq, You can learn more about the films he has made and download them here at FILMS.<\/a><\/p>\n He has written plays for children and adults, including \u201cSongs From The Heart: Edith Wharton,\u201d \u201cEmily,\u201d and \u201cWorld Beyond The Hills,\u201d about W.E.B. DuBois.<\/p>\n His oral history of Junius Scales and his wife Gladys and daughter, Barbara was published in 2009 by the University of Illinois Press. You can learn more about “A Red Family” here<\/a> and at aredfamily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n He is now on second stint as a part-time newspaper columnist. You can read his earliest columns for The Berkshire Record here,<\/a> and his most recent columns on redcrownews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n To pay for his wildly excessive lifestyle, he occasionally builds websites. And once a week tries his hand at poker.<\/p>\n He is hard at work on a series of mysteries based on the I Ching. His first of the series, “Danger: An I Ching Mystery” will be published by Red Crow Books and will be available shortly on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mickey Friedman is a writer and filmmaker. In previous lives, he delivered newspapers, was a file clerk, operated a switchboard, was a caretaker, worked the front desk at the last of Alice\u2019s restaurants, started food co-ops, and taught at a junior high, two colleges, and graduate school. He quit some of these jobs and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5pvz8-1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mickeyfriedman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}