I haven't located my own copy of his Edgar-winning nonfiction
book, but as I understand it he wrote both for the
CAVALIER-level of pretty respectable skin mags and for the
hairy-chest lurids, with integrity that Algis Budrys reports
had him and AD's other colleagues in the racket rolling their
eyes more in wonder than anything else. He would do research,
sometimes at considerable expense, rather than making things
up out of whole cloth, as did Budrys, Robert Silverberg,
Harry Harrison and other talented contributors to the likes
of MAN and MEN'S ADVENTURE. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Craig Smith [mailto:
craismith@earthlink.net]
> The most startling thing about these magazines,
perhaps, is that in the
work
> that Avram Davidson published in at least some of
them was actually, to
the
> best of his ability to make it so, true.
TM
How so and do you mean Davidson's writing in CAVALIER, or the
"Men's True Guts" type magazines?
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