Stacton At Last

 

Longtime readers of this journal will remember a long discussion about the books of David Stacton, short-lived novelist and author of a number of historical fictions very unlike any others.  He was then out of print and largely forgotten, and he still is largely our if print, but now the estimable New York Review Books is reissuing his novel "The Judges of the Secret Court," about the assassination of Lincoln and the trial of the so-called conspirators in a military court,  (This is also the subject of a new film being produced by Robert Redford.)  I contributed an introduction.  It's announced but -- I think -- not quite yet available.