[3] The 1984 movie Best Defense, starring Dudley Moore, is loosely based on Easy and Hard Ways Out.
Robert Altman considered directing an adaptation of the novel in 1976, from a screenplay by Alan Rudolph.
[4] The director and screenwriter also tried to film an adaptation of A Shortage of Engineers, in 2002, before Altman moved on to The Company.
[6][7][8][9] The New York Times wrote that "as a stylist, Grossbach is in a league with Wallace Markfield, Mordecai Richter and Bruce Jay Friedman.
"[10] He has contributed short stories to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Transatlantic Review.