It might be of interest to you to know that Avian(?) regular
Bill Crider was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters
last night at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. This is a very
prestigious organization in Texas, so it's a nice honor for
Bill. I was really happy to see that Joe Lansdale also was
inducted. It's rare to see two crime guys get in that group
in the same year, so hats off to them. (The class also
included James Carlos Blake (whose novels should be of
interest to a lot of you) and John Rechy.) And, another crime
guy, Neal Barrett Jr., won the Joe Bob Briggs Award (the
actual title is more convoluted than this, but I didn't have
anything with me with which to write it down) for the best
book of humor for INTERSTATE DREAMS.
I left before midnight, so I'm not quite sure who shut down
the bar. But it was a good evening.
Later...Kip
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