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The Dashiell Hammett Tour
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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

Willeford
The Book-
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Tag Archives: A Private Venus
Rediscovered: The “Human Typewriter” on the Fattest Man in Milan
A few months ago I read Giorgio Scerbanenco’s A Private Venus — only the second book translated into English by this writer, so prolific he was called the “human typewriter”. . . . I’ve met several authors who could lay claim … Continue reading
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Tagged A Private Venus, Duca Lamberti, Giorgio Scerbanenco, Human Typewriters, Manchette





