Dave+Doug:
If you want more info on Mr. Shubin, I've got a review on
Shubin's classic noir novel, Anyone's My Name, along with
comments from Mr. Shubin about it at:
http://www.hardluckstories.com/sum2003-DaveZeltserman.htm
--Dave
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "David L. Wilson"
<dwilson@...> wrote:
>
> Doug --
>
> I couldn't agree with you more about the Shubin
book. In fact,
that
> was the book that generated my original question.
I've already
> admitted to being partial to these introductions,
though in this
case,
> the book is an original, not a reprint. Somehow the
biographical
info
> seems more appropriate with a reprint, I think. You
can't very
well
> write the history of a newly published novel. At the
least, I
like the
> old tradition of the portrait and the brief
biography on the
> bookjacket. In Shubin's case, Witness To Myself
opens with four
> pages of rave reviews but none of them identify
exactly what book
it is
> that they are lauding. For me, he seemed to be a
very dextrous
talent
> who appeared (or reappeared) from nowhere. I just
wondered, Who
is
> this guy? At any rate, I've managed to hunt down a
couple Beacon
> paperbacks written by Shubin and I'm looking forward
to reading
them.
> From the covers, they don't particularly look like
crime novels.
>
> David L. Wilson
> Downieville, CA
>
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