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T. J. Dobbin
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I love movies, books, music, my wife and my cat. Still learning how to live.
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As Lady Bird once philosophized, they're called Greatest Hits for a reason. The collections he curated in the 50s do have a couple duds in each one (some casual mid century racist and sexist one-noters that nobody blinked at then but would not get reprints today) but also some awesome discoveries

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But more often than easy dismissals, he'll have a story which is perhaps problematic when you consider the metaphor, but as surface level pulp is still a great little story. In "Lover, When You're Near Me" Matheson crafts an inspired tale on the horrors of women-run societies.

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T. J. Dobbin
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I love movies, books, music, my wife and my cat. Still learning how to live.
83 followers113 following578 posts