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Dark tales from Peter Bart

Cathy Seipp takes a read of Peter Bart's new collection of short stories, Dangerous Company: Dark Tales from Tinseltown, and says the Variety editor "has an ear for dialogue even if he’s not much of a fiction writer; his characters seem wheeled out from some dusty Hollywood prop closet, then moved about dutifully until they exit to the wheeze of an O. Henryish twist. Too bad, because the author is nothing if not a fabulist." The column is in CityBeat.


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