![]() ![]() ![]() To test his theory, in 1966 McGrady recruited a team of Newsday colleagues (according to Andreas Schroder, nineteen men and five women) to collaborate on a sexually explicit novel with no literary or social value whatsoever. Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literary culture had become so base-with the best-seller lists dominated by the likes of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann-that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The book fulfilled the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969 they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity. McGrady's intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. ![]() ![]() Though credited to "Penelope Ashe," it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady. Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. ![]()
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