SCREENMartin Miller works for the welfare department. But his attention to his job is wandering. He isn’t sure he can work there anymore. What Martin really wants is to be in the movies. Not as an actor, not quite. He wants to be in the movies. He sits in the theater, and he becomes Marcello Mastriano to Sophia Loren. He becomes Roger Vadim to Brigitte Bardot. He has sex with these women, and knows that this world is better than real life. His boss, Mr. Poirier, warns him that he will very likely be fired. His girlfriend, Barbara, warns him that Hollywood isn’t real. But Martin knows what he knows—that in a darkened theater, he can be whomever he wants when he enters the screen.CINEMA (THE MASOCHIST)“Susan has had a full day in New York. She has participated in the making of a pornographic film, she has had intercourse with the agent of the film’s producers, she has been offered a leading role in a forthcoming production by the same company, she has come to terms with herself in perhaps ways that she was not accustomed. At the end of all of this she stands in a hotel room fully dressed somewhere between retention and flight... She senses that if she were to tell the men in the street who stare at her what she had been doing that day, they would be amazed but, then, they might be perfectly matter of fact. People in New York accept all sorts of things as matter of fact.” Cool bizarre depiction of a crazy world eminently readable and, ultimately, rather moving. --Joyce Carol Oates the language of erotic literature repurposed for rather more disturbing ends this is no paean to film, this is a lamentation, a demystification of the impossibility of it all that takes a hammer to cinematic illusions. --Joachim Boaz "A young lady named Susan goes to New York to chase the acting dream, 'but, the fact is, she has very little talent and no luck.' So she gets into porn A common story told a million times in the lives of porn actresses, and in sleaze books but this is Barry N. Malzberg, for Pete s sake, and no one tells a common tale like Malzberg. --Michael Hemmingson, Those Sexy Vintage Sleaze Books Barry Nathaniel Malzberg was born July 24, 1939, attended Syracuse University from 1956 to 1960, where he was awarded a Shubert Foundation Playwriting fellowship. In 1964 he married Joyce Zelnick. The next year he began working for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, publishing his first story ( The Bed as by Nathan Herbert ) in March, 1966, and his first sf story ( We re Coming Through the Window ) the following August. Since then, he has published crime fiction, erotica, film and TV tie-ins, men s adventure, satire, science fiction and approximately 1000 stories and essays under his own name and variety of pseudonyms, as well as collaborating with other authors and editing numerous anthologies. His sf novel Beyond Apollo was awarded the John W Campbell Memorial Award. He lives with his wife in Teaneck, New Jersey.