You can find a lot of his stories online at:
http://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/index.htm
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "James Reasoner" <jamesreasoner@...> wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: cptpipes2000
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:45 PM
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Lewis Shiner
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> I'm halfway through Lewis Shiner's Black and White and am curious if he has
> any readers on this list. I'm interested in reading more by him. I've
> learned that he is a friend of Joe Lansdale and there are some similarities
> in their storytelling style.
>
> Incidentally, I picked up the book based on a blurb from Jonathan Lethem.
>
> Chris
>
> ********************
>
> Lew wrote some good private eye stories for MSMM early in his career, both
> on his own and in collaboration with Joe. If I'm remembering correctly,
> Larry Shaw, who took over as editor between Sam Merwin Jr. and Chuck Fritch,
> really liked one of the stories by Lew and Joe and wanted it to be the first
> of a series. But Shaw's editorial tenure lasted about a blink of an eye (I
> never had any contact with him at all, and I was writing most of the Shayne
> stories by then), so those plans never came about. About ten years ago, all
> those PI stories were collected in a book called PRIVATE EYE ACTION AS YOU
> LIKE IT. It's long out of print, of course, and you could probably buy the
> individual issues of MSMM with the stories in them cheaper than you could
> buy the collection. I'm woefully behind on reading Lew's stuff, but he's a
> good guy and a fine writer.
>
> James Reasoner
>
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