Al referred to my earlier email in which I mentioned
> > I too can attest to this - a quick search for
Lombino in the archives
will
> > find the story of how McBain came to accuse me
of
anti-Italian-Americanism
> > (and immortalise my name in an 87th precinct
novel)
>
> The Steve Carella rant you refer to is quoted on
McBain's website
> http://www.edmcbain.com/Newsdesk.asp?id=147
> Sadly, it stops short of the bit where your name is
mentioned, John (or is
> this the expurgated version?).
Yes its the expurgated version because in an initial atack of
humourlessness I had my lawyer tell McBain to cease and
desist from calling me a racist, which he agreed to do,
though I have to say I never checked subsequent editions of
Kiss.
John
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