To the excellent recommendations given by others (I especially like "The Fabulous Clipjoint"), I would like to add the ten or so volumes of Brown's short stories published by Dennis MacMillan. Brown was an extraordinary writer of short fiction, and the breadth of his themes, his ingenuity, sense of humor, and animal gusto in spinning a yarn make him great fun to read. I don't know if the MacMillan series is still in print. If it isn't, it should be. Regards, - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca