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Mike McGrady, The Man Behind Sexy, '60S Literary Hoax, Has Died
latimes.com 1 week, 5 days agoMike McGrady, a cigar-smoking, hard-drinking reporter who rallied his Newsday colleagues to write 1969's suburban sexcapade "Naked Came the Stranger" under a pseudonym, has died . He was 78. Published as the supposedly true-life tales of a highly sexed suburban housewife, the book was attributed to Penelope Ashe, who turned out to be a wholly invented character. Like J.T. Leroy after her, Ashe was represented publicly by an actual human -- Billie Young, McGrady's sister-in-law -- who had nothing to do with
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Required Reading
mypost.com 3 weeks agoBringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt) No “Tudoring” required. Even though Mantel picks up where her award-winning “Wolf Hall” left off in this second novel on Henry VIII adviser Thomas Cromwell, there are enough flashbacks for those who haven’t read the first book , and little repetition...
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