Fashion Moda picked up where Sol left off. Stefen Eins came from Austria and did not ow the prejudices New York’s literary scene practiced like a puritanical religion. The poor artist was singled out as an enemy of culture.
Sol Yurick passed away. I and my ex-wife, along with my step-daughter, stayed at Sol’s house when we went back east to pick up the Thunderbird. We talked for hours about his books, and, the real Cultural Warfare that was going down. I really liked this man.
Conventional armies are powerless against highly loyal and specialized gangs. America’s Rebel Army was this. The British did not stand a chance.
Jon
The American novelist Sol Yurick, who has died aged 87, was too radical, too extreme and too violent for the respectable literary establishment of New York, yet no writer more fully embodied the city’s anguished spirit in the 1960s. His novels The Warriors (1965), Fertig (1966) and The Bag (1968) constitute a trilogy of vibrant energy, biting satire and high, though irreverent, artistic seriousness.
The Warriors, a tale of gangs and street violence, was rejected by 27 publishers before it…
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