What interests me most about Harlan Ellison is his ruminations on how he, a small Jewish boy growing up as a pariah in Painesville, Ohio, became a writer, earning pennies a word from pulp magazines and then graduating to the big time as a scriptwriter in Hollywood. He lays it all out in the essays he writes for the Los Angeles Free Press, collected in The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat. I adopt this as my new career path. This is how I’m going to get out.
