Grove Press continues the reissue of Bruce Jay Friedman’s critically acclaimed fiction with The Current Climate by the comedic genius whose work Nelson Algren hailed as more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth, and Bellow …[and] more important. The Current Climate continues the hilarious misadventures of the screenwriter from Friedman’s novel About Harry Towns. Harry is now twenty years older and living in New York, a frustrated playwright struggling to sell a TV series to make some quick cash-and paralyzed by the decision of whether or not he should get tickets to see Cats.