Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Bernard Malamud's most famous book was The Natural, which got made into a movie with Robert Redford. The movie has a happy ending, unlike the book. (Source).
Bernard Malamud was so awesome he has his own award named after him! The PEN/Malamud Award is for short stories, unsurprisingly. (Source.)
"The Magic Barrel" most often appears in a collection of short stories: thirteen of them, in fact. The collection is called The Magic Barrel, which probably makes the other stories feel sad and neglected. (Source.)