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- Book Review: Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don'...
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About Me
- David Rachels
- THE NOIR ZONE
- David is editor of the first-ever collection of Gil Brewer's short fiction, Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories, to be published in September 2012 by the University Press of Flordia.
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