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

[Mark Kohut]

These are the novels of Herbert Gold that were selling even in mass market
(which means widely enough in paperback) when we were younger:

   - Gold, Herbert (1956). *The Man Who Was Not With It*
   <https://books.google.com/books?id=PZfAI9dAHmYC>. Little, Brown. ISBN
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)> 0-912697-69-5
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-912697-69-5>.
   - Gold, Herbert (1959). *The Optimist: A Novel*
   <https://books.google.com/books?id=NxRLAAAAMAAJ>. An Atlantic Monthly
   Press Book. Little, Brown.
   - Gold, Herbert (1960). *Therefore Be Bold, A Novel*. Dial Press.
   - Gold, Herbert (1963). *Salt: A Novel*
   <https://books.google.com/books?id=KuOeAAAAIAAJ>. Dial Press.
   - Gold, Herbert (1966). *Fathers: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir*
   <https://books.google.com/books?id=KHyTKDnz0yAC>. ISBN
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)> 0-87795-550-6
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87795-550-6>.



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”
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>