jack green (the name was spelled with lower-case letters) is the pseudonym of Christopher Carlisle Reid (born 1928), an American literary critic who was a great defender of the work of William Gaddis.
In 1963, Hawkins self-published a paperback book that sold for $1 entitled Eve, the Common Muse of Henry Miller & Lawrence Durrell, that also addressed Gaddis and green.
In the Wanda Tinasky letters published in the 1980s, Hawkins continued to insist that Gaddis and green were one and the same, and also claimed that Gaddis/green had written the works of Pynchon.
In 1986, Hawkins as Tinasky again claimed that jack green "...did pretty well in the auctorial line with novels published commercially under the names of William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon.
); Preliminary Edition (1982); and Snaps (1991), a mélange of book recommendations, “pithy remarks,” criticism of various media ranging from the New York Times to MTV, puns, opinions, jokes, and scenes from Greenwich Village life.
In 1992, novelist Gilbert Sorrentino called it “one of the authentic minor splendors of New York literary life in the late fifties and early sixties.”[9] Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips devote a page to it in A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980; describing it as “part conceptual art, part political tract, and part ’zine,” they write that Green “used his underground tabloid for cultural commentary and deliciously satirical (yet superbly well-documented) assaults against institutionalized publishing and book reviewing in America.”[10] In his best-selling book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb offered Fire the Bastards!