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Richard Gibson

Fiction

Summer 1952

Two Mortuary Sermons

By Richard Gibson

My lord, it is a great art to die well, and to be learnt by men in health.               —JEREMY TAYLOR I. SKIP’S DEATH Things, as Eddie would have said, were […]

Nonfiction

Spring 1951

A No to Nothing

By Richard Gibson

A young man, let us call him X, is ushered unctuously LA. into the inner offices of a reputable American publisher (it could well be any major publisher). The young […]