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Here's a blog post that went up yesterday, probably more of interest to collectors than GoodReaders—though I know there's some overlap:
I wrote about this in a newsletter that went out yesterday, but not all of you will have received it. So I'll just tell you briefly that I've put up eleven items for auction on eBay. The listings go live at 9pm Eastern Time tonight (that's Tuesday, May 29) and...
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I wrote about this in a newsletter that went out yesterday, but not all of you will have received it. So I'll just tell you briefly that I've put up eleven items for auction on eBay. The listings go live at 9pm Eastern Time tonight (that's Tuesday, May 29) and...
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The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
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Hit Man (Keller, #1)
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Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)
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Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Rhodenbarr, #1)
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder, #6)
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The Burglar in the Closet (Rhodenbarr, #2)
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Hit List (Keller, #2)
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A Dance At The Slaughterhouse (Matthew Scudder, #9)
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1991
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
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The Burglar in the Library (Rhodenbarr, #8)
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Campus Tramp - a sample of Afterthoughts (Biographies & Memoirs)
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July 25, 2011
In May, while I was out in California promoting the just-published A Drop of the Hard Stuff, I teamed up with Robert Silverberg for an onstage dialogue at a library in the Bay Area. We talked about our separate genres, crime and science fiction, but much of our talk concerned our shared past in what we’ve come to call Midcentury Erotica. (Mulholland Books has since posted a transcription of the entire session on their site.)
An enduring embodiment of my own adventures with paperback erotica is Campus Tramp. Christian Feuerstein, an ardent Antioch alum, was instrumental in getting the book reissued by Creeping Hemlock Press, and two days ago I had lunch with Christian and her husband, Michael Heffernan, and we talked about the book and its totemic place in the college’s institutional mythology. So here’s my afterword, written originally for Creeping Hemlock and subsequently included in Open Road’s eBook.
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“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. ”
― Lawrence Block
― Lawrence Block
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“George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.”
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