Hubert Selby Jr. dies

[ghost of miles]

Just heard it in the All Things Considered billboard. Author of LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, etc. A hell of a writer.

[brownie]

The news of Selby's death is frontpage news in today's edition of the Paris daily newspaper Liberation.

'An American Novel' is the bold headline of the frontpage.

http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Template=QUOTDUJOUR

[paul secor]

Also "The Room" & "The Demon." His later work is a bit different but still worthwhile. Make sure you familiarize yourself w/Gilbert Sorrentino as well, friends from Brooklyn & the man to whom "Last Exit" is dedicated. "Steelwork" & "Imaginative Qualites of Actual Things" are excellent places to start.

just a few blocks from the setting of "Land's End,"

clem

Missed the news of Selby's passing. He was a helluva writer. I remember reading Last Exit in college in the mid sixties.

Not to intrude upon Mr Selby's tribute, but, as Clem mentions, his friend Gilbert Sorrentino should be read too. I like his novels, but like his poetry even more. "A Classic Case" has been one of my favorite poems since I first read it in college. (Even then, I identified with Major Hoople.)