For years I prayed at the altar of Knopf, beginning with Cain
and Burnett. If you were a Knopf author, brother, you were
in. I was a hardback snob. Call it the ignorance of youth.
Black Lizard helped with my reformation. I had never read Jim
Thompson before the Lizard's first odd-sized, squared-off
volumes came out, garish and in your face.
I was drawn to them immediately, picked up A
Swell Looking Babe and after I read it I sent my girlfriend
to buy the remaining three from the nearest B. Dalton's. She
found them, marched them to the cash register where the clerk
looked the books over, sniffed and said, "I didn't know we
carried books like these!". It was not an endorsement. It was
truly my belated entrance into the world of paperback
originals.
Thank you, Black Lizard.
David L. Wilson Downieville, CA
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