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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Clinton"
<clinton65@...> wrote:
>
>
> Just saw on another list that Ed Hoch has passed
away. A
shame...he was a
> terrific short-story author. Few have been able to
make short
stories work
> for them as a career; he was one of a select
few.
Yes, this is a blow...I met him once, at the 2001 BoucherCon,
just after 9/11 and not too far from the Pentagon. None of
that dampened his ebullience nor charm, and I gather from
Bill Crider's site
http://billcrider.blogspot.com/2008/01/ed-hoch-r-i-p.html
that he was pretty consistently publicly in that mode, a
genuinely nice guy as well as a remarkably fecund
talent.
And even if he'd never written anything other than "The
Oblong Room," he'd be worth noting here.
Todd Mason
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