SLPAD - 7 1/2 Herbert Gold (panning for alluvial gleams)

[Mark Kohut]

Prolific Herbert has devolved as a writer who is read. He lost major
publisher support sometime
since whenever which meant his sales record was too weak for any to want to
publish him.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 3:07 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dwells in Russian Hill, SF, wise purchase in 1961.
>
> In but not of the Beat cohort.
>
> His second wife, nee Melissa Dilworth, after their divorce, perished in the
> helicopter crash with Bill Graham in 1991.
>
> Impressive list of novels, most recently in 2015, & a memoir. Is he a
> novelist Pynchon to whose work he turns as eagerly as some turn to his?
>
>
> https://jorvikpress.com/books/when-a-psychopath-falls-in-love/
>
> Blurb from the Detroit News sez he’s “one of the most gifted writers in
> America”
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